Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/4] drivers: firmware: Add user encrypted key load API support

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 11:49:27 +0200

On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:41:35AM +0000, Nava kishore Manne wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> 	Thanks for providing the review comments.
> Please find my response inline.
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> > Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/4] drivers: firmware: Add user encrypted key load API
> > support
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 11:22:29AM +0530, Nava kishore Manne wrote:
> > > This patch adds user encrypted key load API to support User key
> > > encrypted images loading use cases from Linux.
> > 
> > What is "user key encrypted images"?  Do we need more documentation
> > here for what this is and how to use it?
> > 
> 
> Xilinx bitstream writer, using AES, encrypts the bitstream. This feature allows user to encrypt bitstream using 256-bit AES encryption in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode.
> User can supply a 128-bit Initial Vector and 256-bit key(user key).

Please provide the needed information in the changelog comment.

> For more info please refer here: 
> https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/xapp1239-fpga-bitstream-encryption.pdf 

External links always grow stale.

thanks,

greg k-h

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