Hi: I'm about add these patches to cryptodev-2.6. They create a new operation called crypto_aead which will support AEAD (Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) algorithms. Essentially they combine the functionality of the current blkcipher and hash operations into one. This will be used by IPsec, in particular, for algorithms such as CCM. Right now there is only one AEAD algorithm, authenc, which simply combines an ablkcipher with a hash in the way that is currently used by IPsec ESP. With this we can replace the ablkcipher/hash code in ESP with aead, which will then make it possible to support CCM. The authenc code is currently untested because of the lack of actual users. This will be addressed when IPsec is converted across. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
