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

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 12/21/21 9:55 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>>>>>> 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?
>>
>> According to Nicolai things look good, rules seem to be that it'll be
>> accepted if it has positive reviews (which it has) and no-one objected
>> (which no-one did).
>> Other than that one would have to ask the maintainer.
>> Herbert?
> 
> Any updates on this?

Sigh.

Herbert suggested reworking the patch, and make ffdhe a separate 
algorithm (instead of having enums to specify the values for the 
existing DH algorithm).
Discussion is ongoing :-(

Cheers,

Hannes
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