KEYS: Implement asymmetric key type

Create a key type that can be used to represent an asymmetric key type for use
in appropriate cryptographic operations, such as encryption, decryption,
signature generation and signature verification.

The key type is "asymmetric" and can provide access to a variety of
cryptographic algorithms.

Possibly, this would be better as "public_key" - but that has the disadvantage
that "public key" is an overloaded term.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

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+/* Asymmetric Public-key cryptography key type interface
+ *
+ * See Documentation/security/asymmetric-keys.txt
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _KEYS_ASYMMETRIC_TYPE_H
+#define _KEYS_ASYMMETRIC_TYPE_H
+
+#include <linux/key-type.h>
+
+extern struct key_type key_type_asymmetric;
+
+/*
+ * The payload is at the discretion of the subtype.
+ */
+
+#endif /* _KEYS_ASYMMETRIC_TYPE_H */