linux-kernel - Re: [External] [PATCH v2 0/4] virtio-crypto: support ECDSA algorithm

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Message-ID: <Yr1TuPM8yvJUoV9r@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:41:44 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Lei He <helei.sig11@...edance.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, dhowells@...hat.com,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        berrange@...hat.com, pizhenwei@...edance.com
Subject: Re: [External] [PATCH v2 0/4] virtio-crypto: support ECDSA algorithm

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 03:23:39PM +0800, Lei He wrote:
>
> The main purpose of this patch is to offload ECDSA computations to virtio-crypto dev.
> We can modify the backend of virtio-crypto to allow hardware like Intel QAT cards to 
> perform the actual calculations, and user-space applications such as HTTPS server 
> can access those backend in a unified way(eg, keyctl_pk_xx syscall).

The things is I don't see any driver support in the kernel for
ECDSA.

Cheers,
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