On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 02:45:27PM +0100, David Howells 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. 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-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/
