[PATCHv8 00/12] nvme: In-band authentication support

[Sagi Grimberg]

>>>> So if we want to make progress on this we need the first 3 patches
>>>> rewviewed by the crypto maintainers.  In fact I'd prefer to get them
>>>> merged through the crypto tree as well, and would make sure we have
>>>> a branch that pulls them in for the nvme changes.  I'll try to find
>>>> some time to review the nvme bits as well.
>>>>
>>> That is _actually_ being addressed already.
>>> Nicolai Stange send a patchset for ephemeral keys, FFDHE support, and
>>> FIPS-related thingies for the in-kernel DH crypto implementation
>>> (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20211209090358.28231-1-nstange@suse.de/).
>>>
>>> This obsoletes my preliminary patches, and I have ported my patchset
>>> to run on top of those.
>>>
>>> Question is how to continue from here; I can easily rebase my patchset
>>> and send it relative to Nicolais patches. But then we'll be bound to
>>> the acceptance of those patches, so I'm not quite sure if that's the
>>> best way to proceed.
>>
>> Don't know if we have a choice here... What is the alternative you are
>> proposing?
> 
> That's the thing, I don't really have a good alternative, either.
> It's just that I have so no idea about the crypto subsystem, and
> consequently wouldn't know how long we need to wait...
> 
> But yeah, Nicolais patchset is far superior to my attempts, so I'd be
> happy to ditch my preliminary attempts there.

Can we get a sense from the crypto folks to the state of Nicolais
patchset?