[PATCHv6 00/12] nvme: In-band authentication support

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Mon Nov 22 00:13:13 PST 2021



On 11/22/21 9:47 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> recent updates to the NVMe spec have added definitions for in-band
> authentication, and seeing that it provides some real benefit
> especially for NVMe-TCP here's an attempt to implement it.
> 
> Tricky bit here is that the specification orients itself on TLS 1.3,
> but supports only the FFDHE groups. Which of course the kernel doesn't
> support. I've been able to come up with a patch for this, but as this
> is my first attempt to fix anything in the crypto area I would invite
> people more familiar with these matters to have a look.
> 
> Also note that this is just for in-band authentication. Secure
> concatenation (ie starting TLS with the negotiated parameters) is not
> implemented; one would need to update the kernel TLS implementation
> for this, which at this time is beyond scope.
> 
> As usual, comments and reviews are welcome.
> 
> Changes to v5:
> - Unify nvme_auth_generate_key()
> - Unify nvme_auth_extract_key()

You mean nvme_auth_extract_secret() ?

> - Include reviews from Sagi

What about the bug fix folded in?



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