Re: [tpmdd-devel] in-kernel user of ecdsa

2018-03-26 Thread Tudor Ambarus
On 03/12/2018 07:07 PM, Tudor Ambarus wrote: Would you consider using ECDSA in the kernel module signing facility? Any feedback is good. I can invest some time to make this happen, if needed. When compared with RSA, ECDSA has shorter keys, the key generation process is faster, the sign ope

Re: [tpmdd-devel] in-kernel user of ecdsa

2018-03-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 20:56 +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 19:09:18 CET schrieb James Bottomley: > > Hi James, > > > > > On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 19:07 +0200, Tudor Ambarus wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Would you consider using ECDSA in the kernel module signing >

Re: [tpmdd-devel] in-kernel user of ecdsa

2018-03-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 19:07 +0200, Tudor Ambarus wrote: > Hi, > > Would you consider using ECDSA in the kernel module signing facility? > When compared with RSA, ECDSA has shorter keys, the key generation > process is faster, the sign operation is faster, but the verify > operation is slower than

[tpmdd-devel] in-kernel user of ecdsa

2018-03-12 Thread Tudor Ambarus
Hi, Would you consider using ECDSA in the kernel module signing facility? When compared with RSA, ECDSA has shorter keys, the key generation process is faster, the sign operation is faster, but the verify operation is slower than with RSA. Smaller key sizes imply reduced memory footprint and ban