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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:20:40 +0200
From: "Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com, alan.cox@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/21] KEYS: Add signature verification facility [ver #3]
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:13 PM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> Kasatkin, Dmitry <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes. it is clear...
>> Would it be possible to have pass data (uncompleted) hash?
>
> Yes, provided it's not finalised. Also, with the current code it would have
> to be a shash, but I think I should be able to support the passing in of an
> async hash by exporting the state from that and importing the state into a
> shash using the crypto layer export and import functions.
>
I thought about export/import.
But I think export/Import is hash driver implementation specific...
Cannot use ahash state for shash...
As you said in repose to later patch, you could provide some function to
build a final metadata buffer out of signature to finalize the hash...
- Dmitry
> David
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