linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3] akcipher: Introduce verify

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Message-ID: <20190125134614.jflpiybs2b5ezbha@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:46:14 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] akcipher: Introduce verify_rsa/verify for public
 key algorithms

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:18:09PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> 
> Well, if we allowed to reuse dst* fields why not just put digest over
> dst scatterlist? That would be much simpler.

Please see below.
 
> > The advantage of having it in one scatterlist is that for those
> > users that already have the two pieces together could simply provide
> > a single SG element (I don't know how likely that is in practice
> > though).
> > 
> > For others you would simply tack on an extra SG element.

Cheers,
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