Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:52:24 -0700 | From | Tadeusz Struk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] crypto: add PKE API |
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On 05/31/2015 10:48 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 09:54:41AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote: >> >> If we do this that way then we will be able to pass only one input and one >> output parameter. There are cases when we will need more that this. >> For instance for ECDSA signature generation we need one input param hash(m) >> and two output parameters (r, s). > > There is no reason why you couldn't encode that within one stream. > As far as as the user is concerned the output is one entity, i.e., > the signature. The fact that it is made up of two numbers is of > no concern to the API. It's a technicality for the algorithm to > sort out. > >> So I have used the SG for that. This is not to deal with non-contiguous memory, >> but to pass more in/out parameters. Each parameter will need to occupy contiguous space in memory. >> I will update the comment to make it more clear. >> If you have other idea how to do this I will be happy to try it. > > If you really wanted to do this then you should be using a simple > (u8 *, unsigned int) pair but I don't really think this is at all > necessary. >
Ok, I'll rework this to take one char *src and one *dst ptrs. Thanks T
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