linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] General Key Derivation Function Support

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Message-ID: <20190208074558.j3k6gw66q4e2y2lv@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:45:58 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>,
        Ryan Chen <yu.chen.surf@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] General Key Derivation Function Support

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 03:39:10PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2019, 11:08:54 CET schrieb Herbert Xu:
> 
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> > I'm still not convinced why this needs to go into the crypto API
> > instead of being hosted in a helper which should achieve pretty
> > much the same result.
> 
> How do you propose to handle the FIPS 140-2 related requirements of enforcing 
> the integrity test result and the known-answer self tests?

We could easily add self-tests for the helper.

Cheers,
-- 
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