Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > > What if the fallback doesn't exist? For instance, a H/W contained key is > > specifically limited to, say, just sign/verify and the not permitted to be > > used for encrypt/decrypt. How do you provide a fallback given you can't get > > at the key? > > That's a transform with a specific key. I don't see why such a > piece of hardware would even need to be exposed through the crypto > API which is about generic implementations that can take any > arbitrary key.
So what if we want to use a key that's stored in a TPM? I presume then we can't use the crypto interface, but must rather use the *key* as the primary interface somehow. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
