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According to SP800-56A section 5.6.2.1, the public key to be processed for the ECDH operation shall be checked for appropriateness. When the public key is considered to be an ephemeral key, the partial validation test as defined in SP800-56A section 5.6.2.3.4 can be applied. The partial verification test requires the presence of the field elements of a and b. For the implemented NIST curves, b is defined in FIPS 186-4 appendix D.1.2. The element a is implicitly given with the Weierstrass equation given in D.1.2 where a = p - 3. Without the test, the NIST ACVP testing fails. After adding this check, the NIST ACVP testing passes. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> 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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.