[EXT] Re: [RFC PATCH HBK: 2/8] hw-bound-key: flag-is_hbk added to the tfm

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Wed Sep 7 07:26:11 UTC 2022


On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 07:22:42AM +0000, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
>
> Current support, does not permit the hardware to support both types of keys: HBK & Plain Key, at the same time.
> 
> This change is generic and permit any driver that supports both- HBK and plain-key, to differentiate and use the keys accordingly.

Existing drivers simply register hardware keys under a different
algorithm name, there is no reason why they can't coexist with a
plain key.

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