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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] crypto: add PKE API
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:37:49AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
>
> /**
> * struct akcipher_request - public key request
> *
> * @base: Common attributes for async crypto requests
> * @inparams: scatterlist of input parameters (one ent per parameter)
> * for the operation as defined in RFC.
> * For instance for rsa encrypt only one input param is required,
> * (i.e. 'm' - message) as specified in RFC3447 sec 5.1.1
> * (Note: the key belongs to the tfm)
> * @outparams: scatterlist of output parameters (one ent per parameter)
> * for the operation as defined in RFC.
> * For instance for rsa encrypt only one output param will be
> * produced (i.e. 'c' - cipher text) as specified in
> * RFC3447 sec 5.1.1
> *
> * @__ctx: Start of private context data
> */
> struct akcipher_request {
> struct crypto_async_request base;
> struct scatterlist *inparams;
> struct scatterlist *outparams;
> void *__ctx[] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR;
> };

I think you should rename them to src/dst and add a length argument.
Limiting them to one entry also seems strange. When do you need more
one parameter?

> /**
> * struct akcipher_alg - generic public key algorithm
> *
> * @sign: Function performs a sign operation as defined by public key
> * algorithm
> * @verify: Function performs a sign operation as defined by public key
> * algorithm
> * @encrypt: Function performs an encrypt operation as defined by public key
> * algorithm
> * @decrypt: Function performs a decrypt operation as defined by public key
> * algorithm
> * @reqsize: Request context size required by algorithm implementation
> *
> * @base: Common crypto API algorithm data structure
> */
> struct akcipher_alg {
> int (*sign)(struct akcipher_request *req);
> int (*verify)(struct akcipher_request *req);
> int (*encrypt)(struct akcipher_request *req);
> int (*decrypt)(struct akcipher_request *req);

Looks good. You'll also need a setkey (or perhaps two) function.

Thanks,
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