On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 04:37:04PM +0300, Tudor Ambarus wrote: > Use common ASN.1 sequences for all RSA implementations. > > Give hardware RSA implementations the chance to use > the RSA's software implementation parser even if they > are likely to want to use raw integers. > > The parser expects a context that contains at the first address > a pointer to a struct rsa_asn1_action instance that has function > pointers to specific parser actions (return MPI or raw integer keys), > followed by a key representation structure (for MPI or raw integers). > > This approach has the advantage that users can select specific > parser actions by using a general parser with function pointers > to specific actions.
I don't understand why we need different parsing functions in the first place. Can't they just return raw integers always? You can then trivially convert the raw integers to MPI, no? Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
