From: Stephan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add support for ECDSA algorithm
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 08:44:20 +0100
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Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2017, 11:30:04 CET schrieb Nitin Kumbhar:

Hi Nitin,

> > Who is going to use this in the kernel?
> 
> This ECDSA implementation is analogous to the RSA kernel implementation
> for signature generation / verification. It extends ECC family of
> algorithms like ECDH to support signature verification using akcipher.
> This will be used in a way similar to RSA.

So, I guess that I should dust off algif_akcipher now.

Ciao
Stephan