From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add support for ECDSA algorithm Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 21:57:21 +0800 Message-ID: <20170202135721.GA5289@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1484912161-5932-1-git-send-email-nkumbhar@nvidia.com> <20170123142417.GD19957@gondor.apana.org.au> <113d3ef8-ef34-0651-71e7-be09ef55727e@nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Nitin Kumbhar Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:51139 "EHLO helcar.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbdBBN5g (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2017 08:57:36 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <113d3ef8-ef34-0651-71e7-be09ef55727e@nvidia.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:30:04AM +0530, Nitin Kumbhar wrote: > > 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. Yes but RSA had an in-kernel user in the form of module signature verification. We don't add algorithms to the kernel without actual users. So this patch-set needs to come with an actual in-kernel user of ECDSA. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt