[PATCH 0/2] tpm: use SM3 instead of SM3_256

James Bottomley jejb at linux.ibm.com
Sat Oct 9 13:29:52 UTC 2021


On Sat, 2021-10-09 at 21:08 +0800, Tianjia Zhang wrote:
> According to https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-oscca-cfrg-sm3-01.html,
> SM3 always produces a 256-bit hash value and there are no plans for
> other length development, so there is no ambiguity in the name of
> sm3.

For the TPM we're following the TPM Library specification

https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/tpm-library-specification/

Which is very clear: the algorithm name is TPM_ALG_SM3_256

We're using sm3 as our exposed name because that's what linux crypto
uses, so there should be no problem in what the end user sees, but
changing to non standard TPM definitions is only going to cause
confusion at the kernel level.

James




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