Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] crypto: AF_ALG support for KPP

2017-04-19 Thread Stephan Müller
Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2017, 14:03:35 CEST schrieb Tudor Ambarus: Hi Tudor, > Hi, Stephan, Herbert, > > On 19.04.2017 02:03, Stephan Müller wrote: > > The patch 8 describes the different operations that are supported by > > AF_ALG > > KPP. This support includes generation and retaining of the

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] crypto: AF_ALG support for KPP

2017-04-19 Thread Tudor Ambarus
Hi, Stephan, Herbert, On 19.04.2017 02:03, Stephan Müller wrote: The patch 8 describes the different operations that are supported by AF_ALG KPP. This support includes generation and retaining of the private key inside the kernel. This private key would never be sent to user space. There are

[RFC PATCH 0/8] crypto: AF_ALG support for KPP

2017-04-18 Thread Stephan Müller
Hi, This is an RFC to discuss whether and how to support access to the KPP kernel crypto API (Diffie-Hellman and EC Diffie-Hellman) by user space. The patch set is only meant for discussion and not for production use. Testing is only performed for the DH part via [1]. The DH testing shows that