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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2018-10-09 17:47:46 +0100
committerJames Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>2018-10-26 09:30:46 +0100
commit3c58b2362ba828ee2970c66c6a6fd7b04fde4413 (patch)
tree842096971b747ef531d6b4d3767ac85f993eb83f /Documentation/crypto
parentc08fed73712620eb0a19244dbbbbdf00edbe5e47 (diff)
KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser [ver #2]
Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key format [RFC 5208] parser for the asymmetric key type. For the moment, this will only support unencrypted DER blobs. PEM and decryption can be added later. PKCS#8 keys can be loaded like this: openssl pkcs8 -in private_key.pem -topk8 -nocrypt -outform DER | \ keyctl padd asymmetric foo @s Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Reviewed-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Reviewed-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> Tested-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
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@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ Examples of blob formats for which parsers could be implemented include:
- X.509 ASN.1 stream.
- Pointer to TPM key.
- Pointer to UEFI key.
+ - PKCS#8 private key [RFC 5208].
+ - PKCS#5 encrypted private key [RFC 2898].
During key instantiation each parser in the list is tried until one doesn't
return -EBADMSG.