Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 9 authors, 2022-10-20

Re: [PATCH v0 6/8] KEYS: trusted: caam based black key

From: Ben Boeckel <hidden>
Date: 2022-10-06 12:41:55
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 18:38:35 +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
- CAAM supports two types of black keys:
  -- Plain key encrypted with ECB
  -- Plain key encrypted with CCM
What is a "black key"? Is this described in the documentation or local
comments at all? (I know I'm unfamiliar with CAAM, but maybe this should
be mentioned somewhere?).
  Note: Due to robustness, default encytption used for black key is CCM.
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^ encryption

What "robustness"? Surely there's some more technical details involved
here?
- A black key blob is generated, and added to trusted key payload.
  This is done as part of sealing operation, that was triggered as a result of:
  -- new key generation
  -- load key,
It seems that "black keys" are what the uapi calls "hw". I think this
should be mentioned in the commit message (and CAAM docs).

What do other keytypes do if `hw` is requested and it's not possible
(say, `big_key`)?

Thanks,

--Ben
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