[PATCH 3/3] encrypted-keys: document new fscrypt key format

André Draszik git at andred.net
Fri Jan 19 09:16:53 UTC 2018


Thank you Ted,

On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:05 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 02:38:59PM +0000, André Draszik wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Please be very clear about exactly what security properties are
> > > achieved
> > > by
> > > using encrypted-keys.
> > 
> > I've left out all of this in the updated documentation, as any such
> > information should probably be in Documentation/security/keys/trusted-
> > encrypted.rst in the first place.
> 
> Where is this document going to be found / when will it be written?
> It seems really odd to be requesting a do code review when the
> specifications aren't available and/or haven't been written yet.  I
> prefer to review the *design* first, as opposed to trying to both
> review the code and try to guess at the design and review my guess of
> the design at the same time....

Does v3's commit message https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10173189/ serve
as a good enough design document?

Cheers,
Andre'

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