[PATCH v3 0/2] use SM3 instead of SM3_256

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Tue Oct 26 16:08:10 UTC 2021


On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 09:56, Tianjia Zhang
<tianjia.zhang at linux.alibaba.com> 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.
>

What is the point of these changes? Having '256' in the identifiers is
merely redundant and not factually incorrect, so why can't we just
leave these as they are?




> ---
> v3 changes:
>  - The fix of document trusted-encrypted.rst is put in patch 2
>
> v2 changes:
>  - an additional macro with the same value is defined for uapi instead
>    of renaming directly
>
> Tianjia Zhang (2):
>   crypto: use SM3 instead of SM3_256
>   tpm: use SM3 instead of SM3_256
>
>  Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst | 2 +-
>  crypto/hash_info.c                                | 4 ++--
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c                      | 4 ++--
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c                       | 2 +-
>  include/crypto/hash_info.h                        | 2 +-
>  include/linux/tpm.h                               | 2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/hash_info.h                    | 3 ++-
>  security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c         | 2 +-
>  8 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.19.1.3.ge56e4f7
>



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