On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:50:06PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:45:25PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > TinyCrypt (https://github.com/01org/tinycrypt) is used as AES
> > > implementation, which is not timing resistant. Eventually this needs to
> > > be replaced with AES-NI based implementation that could be either
> >
> > > - re-use existing AES-NI code in the kernel
> >
> > This. That is an absolute must. We're not going to merge custom AES
> > implementations.
>
> I'll post v6 update without update to this in order to get otherwise
> improved version out and work on it for v7.
>
> My initial idea to sort this out would be to try to compile
>
> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S
>
> as part of the enclave binary and use it to run AES-256.
No. The kernel has a crypto API.
Thanks,
tglx
