asymmetric keys · Maintained

Maintainers

• M David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• M Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
• M Ignat Korchagin <ignat@linux.win>

Paths

• F Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.rst
• F crypto/asymmetric_keys/
• F include/crypto/pkcs7.h
• F include/crypto/public_key.h
• F include/keys/asymmetric-*.h
• F include/linux/verification.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-doc (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD60d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v7 03/10] crypto: pkcs7: add tests for pkcs7_get_authattr
  2026-05-07 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH v7 02/10] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-05-07 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH v7 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-05-07 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE65d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [v6 03/10] crypto: pkcs7: add tests for pkcs7_get_authattr
  2026-04-29 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE65d [v6 02/10] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-04-29 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE65d [v6 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-04-29 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE74d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 03/10] crypto: pkcs7: add tests for pkcs7_get_authattr
  2026-04-20 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH v5 02/10] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-04-20 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH v5 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-04-20 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 03/10] crypto: pkcs7: add tests for pkcs7_get_authattr
  2026-04-16 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH v4 02/10] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-04-16 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH v4 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-04-16 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE103d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3 3/9] crypto: pkcs7: add tests for pkcs7_get_authattr
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH v3 2/9] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH v3 1/9] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 05/10] crypto: pkcs7: add tests for pkcs7_get_authattr
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 04/10] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 03/10] crypto: pkcs7: allow pkcs7_digest() to be called from pkcs7_trust
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 02/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 01/10] certs: break out pkcs7 check into its own function
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE206d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [RFC 07/11] crypto: pkcs7: add tests for pkcs7_get_authattr
  2025-12-11 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE206d [RFC 06/11] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2025-12-11 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE206d [RFC 05/11] crypto: pkcs7: allow pkcs7_digest() to be called from pkcs7_trust
  2025-12-11 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE206d [RFC 04/11] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2025-12-11 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE206d [RFC 03/11] certs: break out pkcs7 check into its own function
  2025-12-11 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE417d [PATCH v3 1/4] security: Hornet LSM
  2025-05-02 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE443d [PATCH v2 security-next 1/4] security: Hornet LSM
  2025-04-04 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE465d [RFC PATCH security-next 1/4] security: Hornet LSM
  2025-03-21 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE865d [RFC 8/8] KEYS: Add intentional fault injection
  2024-02-16 · Petr Tesarik <hidden>
• STALE865d [RFC 7/8] KEYS: Run PGP key parser in a sandbox
  2024-02-16 · Petr Tesarik <hidden>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE116d [PATCH v2 01/10] certs: break out pkcs7 check into its own function
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 02/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 03/10] crypto: pkcs7: allow pkcs7_digest() to be called from pkcs7_trust
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 04/10] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH v3 1/9] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH v3 2/9] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>