Re: [PATCH 2/2] crypto: ccree: enable support for hardware keys

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On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/31/2018 07:30 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> ...
>>> Are there other crypto drivers doing this?
>>
>> I thought the exact same thing until I ran into a presentation about the s390
>> secure keys implementation. I basically imitated their use (or abuse?)
>> of the Crypto API
>> assuming it is the way to go.
>>
>> Take a look at arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c
>>
>> The slide for the presentation describing this is here:
>> http://schd.ws/hosted_files/ossna2017/89/LC2017SecKeyDmCryptV5.pdf
>>
>> And they seem to even have support for it in the DM-Crypt tools, which at
>> the time they claimed to be in the process of getting it up-streamed.
>
> It is "in the process", but definitely not accepted.
>
> We are just discussing how to integrate paes wrapped keys in cryptsetup and
> it will definitely not be the way presented in the slides above.
>
> If you plan more such ciphers, I would welcome some unified way in crypto API
> how to handle these HSM keys flavors.

That would be good. Note however the fine difference - the s390 usage
is a wrapped key.
Ours is a token for a key (a slot number really). Probably makes no
difference for any
practical sense, but I thought it is worth mentioning it.

>
> For kernel dm-crypt, there is no change needed (dmcrypt just treats it as a normal cipher key).
> (I would say that it is not the best idea either, IMHO it would be better to use
> kernel keyring reference instead and somehow handle hw keys through keyring.)
>

I am all for the keyring approach. In fact, that was the way I wanted
to to go to introduce this feature
for cryptocell when I discovered that was already upstream code using
a different approach.

Any suggestion how this would work vis a vis the crypto API usage?

e.g. - have a parallel setkey variant added to crypto APi that takes a
kernel keyring object rather than actual key?


Thanks,
Gilad





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