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SubjectRE: [RFC v2 1/4] drivers: firmware: Add user encrypted key load API support
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Hi Greg,

Thanks for providing the review comments.
Please find my response inline.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 3:25 PM
> To: Nava kishore Manne <navam@xilinx.com>
> Cc: robh+dt@kernel.org; Michal Simek <michals@xilinx.com>;
> mdf@kernel.org; trix@redhat.com; arnd@arndb.de; Rajan Vaja
> <RAJANV@xilinx.com>; Amit Sunil Dhamne <amitsuni@xlnx.xilinx.com>;
> Tejas Patel <tejasp@xlnx.xilinx.com>; zou_wei@huawei.com; Sai Krishna
> Potthuri <lakshmis@xilinx.com>; Ravi Patel <RAVIPATE@xilinx.com>;
> iwamatsu@nigauri.org; Jiaying Liang <jliang@xilinx.com>;
> devicetree@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org; git <git@xilinx.com>;
> chinnikishore369@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/4] drivers: firmware: Add user encrypted key load API
> support
>
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 11:22:29AM +0530, Nava kishore Manne wrote:
> > This patch adds user encrypted key load API to support User key
> > encrypted images loading use cases from Linux.
>
> What is "user key encrypted images"? Do we need more documentation
> here for what this is and how to use it?
>

Xilinx bitstream writer, using AES, encrypts the bitstream. This feature allows user to encrypt bitstream using 256-bit AES encryption in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode.
User can supply a 128-bit Initial Vector and 256-bit key(user key).
For more info please refer here:
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/xapp1239-fpga-bitstream-encryption.pdf

> And why is "User" capitalized?
>

Will fix.

Regards,
Navakishore.

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