linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2] akcipher: Introduce verify

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Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:00:09 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Tudor Ambarus <tudor-dan.ambarus@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>,
        Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Gary Hook <gary.hook@....com>,
        Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, qat-linux@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] akcipher: Introduce verify_rsa/verify for public
 key algorithms

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:41:00PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
>
> a) RSA verify works differently (is it just disguised encrypt),
> b) We have separate wrapper module for it (pkcs1pad). Thus:
> 
> Old API can not be removed. In other words, we can not replace
> .verify_rsa with .verify in these drivers or PKCS1 will not work.
> 
> We can replace .verify_rsa with .verify in pkcs1pad, but there is no
> need for that if we stay with two API calls, which we can't avoid.

I think having two API calls during a transition period is fine.
But it must not be the long-term outcome.

In order to keep existing drivers working, I think we should make
the API wrap the legacy verify_rsa and implement verify directly
on top of it.  IOW the driver remains unchanged for now but the
crypto API code should provide a verify API that is implemented
on top of the driver's verify_rsa call.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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