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 -- Gilad Ben-Yossef Chief Coffee Drinker "If you take a class in large-scale robotics, can you end up in a situation where the homework eats your dog?" -- Jean-Baptiste Queru
