Re: [PATCH] crypto: implement DH primitives under akcipher API

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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 09:01:55AM +0000, Salvatore Benedetto wrote:
> Implement Diffie-Hellman primitives required by the scheme under the
> akcipher API. Here is how it works.
> 1) Call set_pub_key() by passing DH parameters (p,g) in PKCS3 format
> 2) Call set_priv_key() to set your own private key (xa) in raw format
> 3) Call decrypt() without passing any data as input to get back the
>    public part which will be computed as g^xa mod p
> 4) Call encrypt() by passing the counter part public key (yb) in raw format
>    as input to get back the shared secret calculated as zz = yb^xa mod p
> 
> A test is included in the patch. Test vector has been generated with
> openssl
> 
> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@xxxxxxxxx>

Who is going to use this?

Thanks,
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