linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] crypto: KEYS: convert public key and digsig asym to the akcipher api

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Message-ID: <56BBC321.1000503@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:09:21 -0800
From:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] crypto: KEYS: convert public key and digsig asym
 to the akcipher api

Hi David,
On 02/10/2016 06:17 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Why didn't you put the RSA signature parsing - ie. where the OID and the other
> bits are checked - into crypto/rsa.c?
> 

Do you want to get rid of the crypto/asymmetric_keys/rsa.c completely?
I wanted to make the conversion churn as small as possible.
I can move it in a subsequent patch if you want.
Thanks,
-- 
TS