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FIPS 186-5 [1] was released approximately 1 year ago. The most
interesting change for ecc_gen_privkey is the removal of curves with
order < 224 bits. This is minimum is now checked in step 1. It is
unlikely that there is still any benefit in generating private keys for
curves with n < 224, as those curves provide less than 112 bits of
security strength and are therefore unsafe for any modern usage.
This patch also updates the documentation for __ecc_is_key_valid and
ecc_gen_privkey to clarify which FIPS 186-5 method is being used to
generate private keys. Previous documentation mentioned that "extra
random bits" was used. However, this did not match the code. Instead,
the code currently uses (and always has used) the "rejection sampling"
("testing candidates" in FIPS 186-4) method.
[1]: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.186-5
Signed-off-by: Joachim Vandersmissen <git@jvdsn.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.