Re: [PATCH 2/8] lib: add asn.1 encoder

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On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:08 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have a need in the TPM trusted keys to return the ASN.1 form of the
> TPM key blob so it can be operated on by tools outside of the kernel.
> To do that, we have to be able to read and write the key format.  The
> current ASN.1 decoder does fine for reading, but we need pieces of an
> ASN.1 encoder to return the key blob.

Is there a reason the kernel needs to do this encoding, rather than
having something in userland do the translation?



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