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

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Message-ID: <20190228103715.ijvimcfysiguiwty@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:37:15 +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 Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:33:37PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
>
> To make the same for set_{pub,priv}_key it will require patching RSA
> drivers anyway, since length of the key is stored just once as keylen
> argument.

No we don't need to use the same format for different algorithms.
RSA should stay as is.

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