linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v7 0/3] crypto: Introduce Public Key Encryption API

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:14:53 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, keescook@...omium.org,
	jwboyer@...hat.com, smueller@...onox.de, richard@....at,
	steved@...hat.com, qat-linux@...el.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, james.l.morris@...cle.com,
	jkosina@...e.cz, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	vgoyal@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v7 0/3] crypto: Introduce Public Key Encryption API

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:30:50AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> This patch set introduces a Public Key Encryption API.
> What is proposed is a new crypto type called crypto_akcipher_type,
> plus new struct akcipher_alg and struct crypto_akcipher, together with number
> of helper functions to register akcipher type algorithms and allocate
> tfm instances. This is to make it similar to how the existing crypto
> API works for the ablkcipher, ahash, and aead types.
> The operations the new interface will allow to provide are:
> 
> 	int (*sign)(struct akcipher_request *req);
> 	int (*verify)(struct akcipher_request *req);
> 	int (*encrypt)(struct akcipher_request *req);
> 	int (*decrypt)(struct akcipher_request *req);

All applied with two minor changes.  First of all I made AKCIPHER
invisible to the user like the other type config options.  I also
added a missing select on ASN1 that broke my build.

Thanks,
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