[RFC 2/4] Add rsa support

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Mar 13 03:12:44 PDT 2015


On 11:06 Fri 13 Mar     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:56:54AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > On 10:35 Fri 13 Mar     , Jan Lübbe wrote:
> > > On Do, 2015-03-12 at 18:47 +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > > as state in my previous e-mail I will a keystore support
> > > > 
> > > > but this dt format to handle no please
> > > > 
> > > > we need to use the standard format as in the kernel or openssl
> > > > 
> > > > DER and x509
> > > > 
> > > > specially x509 as if we want to be able to add key at runtime we need
> > > > to sign them we the trusted RO keys
> > > > 
> > > > For the implementation of RSA I use the polarssl one and plan to add
> > > > the kernel one
> > > > 
> > > > and this implementation is limited to 4096 the polarssl one is not
> > > 
> > > Having an ASN1 parser for DER/x509 is a huge amount of complexity I
> > > would not want in a bootloader. Just take a look at the problems the
> > > SSL-CAs and browsers had with different interpretations of the same
> > > cert.
> > 
> > der is nothing few under lines
> 
> Could you please write something that even remotely makes sense so we
> can translate it here?

sorry mutt via ssh lost some character when typing

der is few 100s line of code that's all

and x509 just a few more

as I do not plan to support all the options of x509 specially the non
standard one

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> Sascha
> 
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