linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:36:51 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Tadeusz Struk <tstruk@...il.com>,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, tadeusz.struk@...el.com,
	smueller@...onox.de, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	marcel@...tmann.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	peterhuewe@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:

> David, is there a way to do that test purely in software without
> needing hardware support? We know that the data might not actually be
> present in all cases... is there an easy test for that case?

I have written a user TPM driver that talks to a userspace TPM implementation
out of the backend.  It's been pushed to the TPM driver guy but I'm not sure
what became of it.  I'll chase it up.

David