Re: [PATCH v7 00/13] Add support for NIST P521 to ecdsa

[Lukas Wunner]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 08:44:52AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 3/20/24 07:47, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > This series adds support for the NIST P521 curve to the ecdsa module
> > to enable signature verification with it.
> > 
> > An issue with the current code in ecdsa is that it assumes that input
> > arrays providing key coordinates for example, are arrays of digits
> > (a 'digit' is a 'u64'). This works well for all currently supported
> > curves, such as NIST P192/256/384, but does not work for NIST P521 where
> > coordinates are 8 digits + 2 bytes long. So some of the changes deal with
> > converting byte arrays to digits and adjusting tests on input byte
> > array lengths to tolerate arrays not providing multiples of 8 bytes.

I've tested the whole series successfully on v6.9-rc1 by authenticating
a PCI device with a NIST P521 certificate using my PCI/CMA development
branch: https://github.com/l1k/linux/commits/doe

Tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>