crypto: ecdh - add privkey generation support

Add support for generating ecc private keys.

Generation of ecc private keys is helpful in a user-space to kernel
ecdh offload because the keys are not revealed to user-space. Private
key generation is also helpful to implement forward secrecy.

If the user provides a NULL ecc private key, the kernel will generate it
and further use it for ecdh.

Move ecdh's object files below drbg's. drbg must be present in the kernel
at the time of calling.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Müller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
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Tudor-Dan Ambarus 2017-05-30 17:52:48 +03:00 • committed by Herbert Xu
commit 6755fd269d
5 changed files with 80 additions and 4 deletions

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int ecc_is_key_valid(unsigned int curve_id, unsigned int ndigits,
const u64 *private_key, unsigned int private_key_len);
/**
* ecc_gen_privkey() - Generates an ECC private key.
* The private key is a random integer in the range 0 < random < n, where n is a
* prime that is the order of the cyclic subgroup generated by the distinguished
* point G.
* @curve_id: id representing the curve to use
* @ndigits: curve number of digits
* @private_key: buffer for storing the generated private key
*
* Returns 0 if the private key was generated successfully, a negative value
* if an error occurred.
*/
int ecc_gen_privkey(unsigned int curve_id, unsigned int ndigits, u64 *privkey);
/**
* ecc_make_pub_key() - Compute an ECC public key
*