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| author | Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> | 2018-12-04 21:31:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2018-12-14 04:54:13 +0300 |
| commit | 9db67581b91d9e9e05c35570ac3f93872e6c84ca (patch) | |
| tree | ff45815c6b756313755cf3f688cddbecf2cd2fc8 /Documentation/security | |
| parent | 76ef5e17252789da79db78341851922af0c16181 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9db67581b91d9e9e05c35570ac3f93872e6c84ca.tar.xz | |
keys-encrypted: add nvdimm key format type to encrypted keys
Adding nvdimm key format type to encrypted keys in order to limit the size
of the key to 32bytes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst index 3bb24e09a332..e8a1c35cd277 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Usage:: Where:: - format:= 'default | ecryptfs' + format:= 'default | ecryptfs | enc32' key-type:= 'trusted' | 'user' @@ -173,3 +173,7 @@ are anticipated. In particular the new format 'ecryptfs' has been defined in in order to use encrypted keys to mount an eCryptfs filesystem. More details about the usage can be found in the file ``Documentation/security/keys/ecryptfs.rst``. + +Another new format 'enc32' has been defined in order to support encrypted keys +with payload size of 32 bytes. This will initially be used for nvdimm security +but may expand to other usages that require 32 bytes payload. |