Re: [PATCH 1/5 v2] PM / hibernate: Create snapshot keys handler

Herbert Xu
2019-01-08T05:04:36Z

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 04:52:00PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> Would it make sense to polish these mentioned KDF patches and add them to the
> kernel crypto API? The sprawl of key derivation logic here and there which
> seemingly does not comply to any standard and thus possibly have issues should
> be prevented and cleaned up.

Are we going to have multiple implementations for the same KDF?
If not then the crypto API is not a good fit. To consolidate
multiple implementations of the same KDF, simply provide helpers
for them.

Cheers,
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