linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/18] crypto: dh - introduce support for ephemeral key generation to dh-generic

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Message-ID: <70e1c5fc-aaf5-1366-561d-178cd3688eea@suse.de>
Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 08:29:34 +0100
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Stephan Müller <smueller@...onox.de>,
        Torsten Duwe <duwe@...e.de>, Zaibo Xu <xuzaibo@...wei.com>,
        Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        qat-linux@...el.com, keyrings@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] crypto: dh - introduce support for ephemeral key
 generation to dh-generic

On 12/1/21 1:48 AM, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> The support for NVME in-band authentication currently in the works ([1])
> needs to generate ephemeral DH keys. Make dh-generic's ->set_secret()
> to generate an ephemeral key via the recently added crypto_dh_gen_privkey()
> in case the input ->key_size is zero. Note that this behaviour is in
> analogy to ecdh's ->set_secret().
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122074727.25988-4-hare@suse.de
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>
> ---
>   crypto/dh.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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