Re: [PATCH 10/18] crypto: dh - introduce support for ephemeral key generation to dh-generic

From: Hannes Reinecke
Date: Wed Dec 01 2021 - 02:29:50 EST


On 12/1/21 1:48 AM, Nicolai Stange wrote:
The support for NVME in-band authentication currently in the works ([1])
needs to generate ephemeral DH keys. Make dh-generic's ->set_secret()
to generate an ephemeral key via the recently added crypto_dh_gen_privkey()
in case the input ->key_size is zero. Note that this behaviour is in
analogy to ecdh's ->set_secret().

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122074727.25988-4-hare@xxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx>
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crypto/dh.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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