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| author |   Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> | 2015-05-28 08:52:42 +0200 |
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| committer |   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2015-06-03 10:48:32 +0800 |
| commit | addfda2fc2ed2fcd7896ef689aa75a7d35a7579b (patch) | |
| tree | 678043407aa4bd793a49b9283feccc7f2bf3b104 /include | |
| parent | Revert "crypto: algif_aead - Disable AEAD user-space for now" (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-addfda2fc2ed2fcd7896ef689aa75a7d35a7579b.tar.xz linux-dev-addfda2fc2ed2fcd7896ef689aa75a7d35a7579b.zip | |
crypto: doc - cover new AEAD interface
The patch updates the DocBook to cover the new AEAD interface
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/crypto/aead.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/aead.h b/include/crypto/aead.h index 61306ed81b8f..1a273bc5656c 100644 --- a/include/crypto/aead.h +++ b/include/crypto/aead.h @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ /** * struct aead_request - AEAD request * @base: Common attributes for async crypto requests + * @old: Boolean whether the old or new AEAD API is used * @assoclen: Length in bytes of associated data for authentication * @cryptlen: Length of data to be encrypted or decrypted * @iv: Initialisation vector @@ -467,7 +468,9 @@ static inline void aead_request_set_callback(struct aead_request *req, * @iv: IV for the cipher operation which must comply with the IV size defined * by crypto_aead_ivsize() * - * Setting the source data and destination data scatter / gather lists. + * Setting the source data and destination data scatter / gather lists which + * hold the associated data concatenated with the plaintext or ciphertext. See + * below for the authentication tag. * * For encryption, the source is treated as the plaintext and the * destination is the ciphertext. For a decryption operation, the use is |