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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>,
	tadeusz.struk@intel.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function [ver 3]
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 11:19:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25139.1463048363@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1605111624090.16566@mjmartin-mac01.local>

Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > +	len = crypto_akcipher_maxsize(tfm);
> > +	info->key_size = len * 8;
> > +	info->max_data_size = len;
> > +	info->max_sig_size = len;
> > +	info->max_enc_size = len;
> > +	info->max_dec_size = len;
> 
> If len > UINT16_MAX, should UINT16_MAX be reported as the max size? Similar
> question for len*8 and key_size.

key_size is 32 bits, but the other sizes are all 16 bits, so you would need a
524288-bit key to exceed their capacity.  I'm not sure that's likely anytime
soon, but should I just make all the sizes 32-bit anyway?

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-12 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-11 14:21 [RFC PATCH 0/8] KEYS: keyctl operations for asymmetric keys [ver 3] David Howells
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] KEYS: Provide key type operations for asymmetric key ops " David Howells
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys " David Howells
2016-05-11 22:17   ` Mat Martineau
2016-05-12 10:16     ` David Howells
2016-05-12 11:04     ` David Woodhouse
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] KEYS: Provide missing asymmetric key subops for new key type ops " David Howells
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] KEYS: Make the X.509 and PKCS7 parsers supply the sig encoding type " David Howells
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function " David Howells
2016-05-11 23:50   ` Mat Martineau
2016-05-12  0:17     ` Tadeusz Struk
2016-05-12 10:19     ` David Howells [this message]
2016-05-12 17:01       ` Mat Martineau
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] KEYS: Allow the public_key struct to hold a private key " David Howells
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] KEYS: Implement encrypt, decrypt and sign for software asymmetric " David Howells
2016-05-11 14:22 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser " David Howells
2016-05-11 19:11   ` David Woodhouse
2016-05-12  0:09   ` Mat Martineau
2016-05-12 10:20     ` David Howells

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