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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2018-10-09 19:47:46 +0300 |
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| committer | James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com> | 2018-10-26 11:30:46 +0300 |
| commit | 3c58b2362ba828ee2970c66c6a6fd7b04fde4413 (patch) | |
| tree | 842096971b747ef531d6b4d3767ac85f993eb83f /Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt | |
| parent | c08fed73712620eb0a19244dbbbbdf00edbe5e47 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3c58b2362ba828ee2970c66c6a6fd7b04fde4413.tar.xz | |
KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser [ver #2]
Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key format [RFC 5208] parser for the
asymmetric key type. For the moment, this will only support unencrypted
DER blobs. PEM and decryption can be added later.
PKCS#8 keys can be loaded like this:
openssl pkcs8 -in private_key.pem -topk8 -nocrypt -outform DER | \
keyctl padd asymmetric foo @s
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Reviewed-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Reviewed-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt b/Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt index deb656ef008b..8763866b11cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.txt @@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ Examples of blob formats for which parsers could be implemented include: - X.509 ASN.1 stream. - Pointer to TPM key. - Pointer to UEFI key. + - PKCS#8 private key [RFC 5208]. + - PKCS#5 encrypted private key [RFC 2898]. During key instantiation each parser in the list is tried until one doesn't return -EBADMSG. |