[RFC 2/4] Add rsa support

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Fri Mar 13 03:06:48 PDT 2015


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?

Sascha

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