On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:49:41PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote: > > In my patch series I initially had registered the akciphers under the names > ecc-nist-p192 and ecc-nist-p256 but now, in V4, joined them together as > 'ecdsa'. This may be too generic for a name. Maybe it should be called > ecsda-nist for the NIST family.
What I'm proposing is specifying the curve in the name as well, i.e., ecdsa-nist-p192 instead of just ecdsa or ecdsa-nist. This simplifies the task of handling hardware that only supports a subset of curves. There is a parallel discussion of exactly what curves we should support in the kernel. Personally if there is a user in the kernel for it then I'm happy to see it added. In your specific case, as long as your use of the algorithm in x509 is accepted then I don't have any problems with adding support in the Crypto API. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
