Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 2015 10:59:26 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] crypto: add PKE API |
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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 04:03:55PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > So what if we want to use a key that's stored in a TPM? I presume then we > can't use the crypto interface, but must rather use the *key* as the primary > interface somehow.
Then it has nothing to do with what we're trying to do here.
The crypto API is providing a generic algorithmic interface for operations that can then be accelerated by hardware devices.
So anything that cannot be done purely in software does not fall under our purview.
Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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