On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, David Howells wrote: > I have pushed some keyrings patches that will likely affect this to: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=keys-devel > > I intend to ask James to pull these into his next branch. If he's happy to do > so, I can look at pulling at least your asymmetric keys patch on top of them. This suggests a point that I raised at the Linux Plumbers conference: Why are asymmetric keys used for verifying the hibernation image? It seems that a symmetric key would work just as well. And it would be a lot quicker to generate, because it wouldn't need any high-precision integer computations. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
