linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] X.509: Parse public key parameters from x509 for akcipher

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Date:   Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:37:32 +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 1/4] X.509: Parse public key parameters from x509 for
 akcipher

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 09:46:28PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
>
> >From the other point of view, set_params may never be called or
> implemented. So, making it called first and move memory zeroing
> into set_params may create more complications than simplicity.
> 
> Making both callbacks callable in any order also will not make
> things simpler. (Need to be prepared to be called in different
> order.)

How about encoding these parameters together with the public/private
keys so that they can be set through the existing setkey functions?

You might want to have a look at how we handle this in crypto/dh.c.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt