Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2014 22:43:37 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] crypto: Documentation - crypto API high level spec |
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:18:29PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER Raw block cipher > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_COMPRESS Compression > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AEAD Authenticated Encryption with > Associated Data > > > (MAC) + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER Synchronous multi-block cipher > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER Asynchronous multi-block cipher > > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_GIVCIPHER > > > > What's this one? > > I would like to ask Herbert what that is -- I looked around in the code and I > am not sure what that flag shall indicate.
givcipher is an ablkcipher packed together with an IV generator.
Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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