Re: [PATCH 06/18] asymmetric keys: support parsing PKCS #8 privatekey information

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Aug 25 2013 - 12:11:19 EST


On Thu 2013-08-22 19:01:45, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> Add ASN.1 files and parser to support parsing PKCS #8 noncompressed private
> key information. It's better than direct parsing pure private key because
> PKCS #8 has a privateKeyAlgorithm to indicate the algorithm of private
> key, e.g. RSA from PKCS #1
>
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>


> +#include <crypto/public_key.h>
> +
> +struct pkcs8_info {
> + enum pkey_algo privkey_algo:8; /* Private key algorithm */

Are you sure this is well-defined?

> +struct private_key_algorithm *pkcs8_private_key_algorithms[PKEY_ALGO__LAST] = {
> + [PKEY_ALGO_DSA] = NULL,
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA) || \
> + defined(CONFIG_PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA_MODULE)
> + [PKEY_ALGO_RSA] = &RSA_private_key_algorithm,
> +#endif
> +};

pkey_algo
privkey_algo
private_key_algorithm

...you use all variants.

Having symbols with "__" inside them is "interesting". I'd not do it.
Pavel

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