Re: [PATCH v6 02/13] crypto: ecdsa - Convert byte arrays with key coordinates to digits

Lukas Wunner
2024-03-18T20:35:52Z

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 10:21:20PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM EET, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > For NIST P192/256/384 the public key's x and y parameters could be copied
> > directly from a given array since both parameters filled 'ndigits' of
>
> We "could" do various things but a commit message should describe the
> gain or motivation of doing something, even if you think it should be
> obvious.

"could" is past participle of the verb "can". We were able to copy
directly but no longer can due to the odd key size of P521.

Thanks,

Lukas