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Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2022 09:58:45 +0000
From:   Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@....com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [RFC PATCH HBK: 2/8] hw-bound-key: flag-is_hbk added to
 the tfm



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 12:56 PM
> To: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@....com>
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> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [RFC PATCH HBK: 2/8] hw-bound-key: flag-is_hbk
> added to the tfm
> 
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> On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 07:22:42AM +0000, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> >
> > Current support, does not permit the hardware to support both types of
> keys: HBK & Plain Key, at the same time.
> >
> > This change is generic and permit any driver that supports both- HBK and
> plain-key, to differentiate and use the keys accordingly.
> 
> Existing drivers simply register hardware keys under a different algorithm
> name, there is no reason why they can't coexist with a plain key.
> 

Thanks for the comments.

Intention is to only secure the key buffer, at run-time.
Not to change the working of the crypto algorithm. Algorithm would be working exactly same for plain and HBK.

There are 3rd party IP(s), which uses kernel for crypto-algorithm's operations.
Modifying the algorithm name in these IP(s), is not always allowed or easy to maintain.

While, this patch-set allows to use the same algorithm name, 
and hence prevents any changes required to the user(3rd Party IPs) of kernel crypto layer.

Regards,

> Cheers,
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