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authorTudor-Dan Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>2017-05-30 16:52:48 +0200
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2017-06-10 06:04:35 +0200
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parentcrypto: cavium - Register the CNN55XX supported crypto algorithms. (diff)
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crypto: ecdh - add privkey generation support
Add support for generating ecc private keys. Generation of ecc private keys is helpful in a user-space to kernel ecdh offload because the keys are not revealed to user-space. Private key generation is also helpful to implement forward secrecy. If the user provides a NULL ecc private key, the kernel will generate it and further use it for ecdh. Move ecdh's object files below drbg's. drbg must be present in the kernel at the time of calling. Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Stephan Müller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
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@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ config CRYPTO_DH
config CRYPTO_ECDH
tristate "ECDH algorithm"
select CRYTPO_KPP
+ select CRYPTO_RNG_DEFAULT
help
Generic implementation of the ECDH algorithm