Re: RFC/patch 6/6: usb: add hooks up be able to authorize/deauthorize a device from sysfs

David Brownell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Again, what wireless USB talked about (last I read the specs!) was
purely an *AUTHENTICATION* step ... which I'd exect to work by
relying on the "access key retention" keystore mechanism.

At which point the standard key management operations would
handle all of this stuff.

I'd really hate to see USB try to invent its own mechanisms in
that area.  As you may know, key management is "the" fundamental
crypto security problem.  It's not something a Linux kernel wants
to have two bodies of code addressing; or a Linux distro wants to
need two different toolsets to manage.

- Dave


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