[PATCH v4 2/4] cryptodev: add ec points to sm2 op

Kusztal, ArkadiuszX arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com
Tue Oct 8 23:00:50 CEST 2024


Hi Stephen,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 10:46 PM
> To: Kusztal, ArkadiuszX <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; gakhil at marvell.com; Dooley, Brian
> <brian.dooley at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] cryptodev: add ec points to sm2 op
> 
> On Tue,  8 Oct 2024 19:14:31 +0100
> Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > +	RTE_CRYPTO_SM2_PARTIAL,
> > +	/**<
> > +	 * PMD does not support the full process of the
> > +	 * SM2 encryption/decryption, but the elliptic
> > +	 * curve part only
> 
> Couldn't this just be:
> 	/**< PMD only supports elliptic curve */

SM2 encryption involves several steps: random number generation, hashing, some trivial xor's etc, and calculation of elliptic curve points, what I meant here is that only this EC calculation will be performed.
But when I read it now, I probably may need to add some more clarity to it.


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