Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016, 15:06:19 schrieb Denis B: Hi Denis, > Hello, > > In AEAD mode (or in any case, in IPSec ESP IPv4 – esp4.c), in kernel > versions prior to 4.2 the cryptographic driver is expected to generate > an IV. The driver is not expected to generate the IV. Please see the ASCII art at [1]. The IV generation is done with the seqiv component. So, you driver can implement all of the logic of GCM, but pull the IV generation from the C implementation provided by the kernel crypto API. [1] http://www.chronox.de/crypto-API/ch02s07.html > > What if my driver is unable to generate an IV? > > Thanks, > Dennis. > -- > 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 Ciao Stephan -- 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
