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<title>linux-toradex.git/Documentation/crypto/api-skcipher.rst, branch v6.7</title>
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<title>crypto: remove cipher routines from public crypto API</title>
<updated>2021-01-02T21:41:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2020-12-11T12:27:15+00:00</published>
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The cipher routines in the crypto API are mostly intended for templates
implementing skcipher modes generically in software, and shouldn't be
used outside of the crypto subsystem. So move the prototypes and all
related definitions to a new header file under include/crypto/internal.
Also, let's use the new module namespace feature to move the symbol
exports into a new namespace CRYPTO_INTERNAL.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The cipher routines in the crypto API are mostly intended for templates
implementing skcipher modes generically in software, and shouldn't be
used outside of the crypto subsystem. So move the prototypes and all
related definitions to a new header file under include/crypto/internal.
Also, let's use the new module namespace feature to move the symbol
exports into a new namespace CRYPTO_INTERNAL.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>crypto: ablkcipher - remove deprecated and unused ablkcipher support</title>
<updated>2019-11-17T01:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2019-11-09T17:09:53+00:00</published>
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Now that all users of the deprecated ablkcipher interface have been
moved to the skcipher interface, ablkcipher is no longer used and
can be removed.

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Now that all users of the deprecated ablkcipher interface have been
moved to the skcipher interface, ablkcipher is no longer used and
can be removed.

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>crypto: skcipher - remove the "blkcipher" algorithm type</title>
<updated>2019-11-01T05:38:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2019-10-25T19:41:12+00:00</published>
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Now that all "blkcipher" algorithms have been converted to "skcipher",
remove the blkcipher algorithm type.

The skcipher (symmetric key cipher) algorithm type was introduced a few
years ago to replace both blkcipher and ablkcipher (synchronous and
asynchronous block cipher).  The advantages of skcipher include:

  - A much less confusing name, since none of these algorithm types have
    ever actually been for raw block ciphers, but rather for all
    length-preserving encryption modes including block cipher modes of
    operation, stream ciphers, and other length-preserving modes.

  - It unified blkcipher and ablkcipher into a single algorithm type
    which supports both synchronous and asynchronous implementations.
    Note, blkcipher already operated only on scatterlists, so the fact
    that skcipher does too isn't a regression in functionality.

  - Better type safety by using struct skcipher_alg, struct
    crypto_skcipher, etc. instead of crypto_alg, crypto_tfm, etc.

  - It sometimes simplifies the implementations of algorithms.

Also, the blkcipher API was no longer being tested.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Now that all "blkcipher" algorithms have been converted to "skcipher",
remove the blkcipher algorithm type.

The skcipher (symmetric key cipher) algorithm type was introduced a few
years ago to replace both blkcipher and ablkcipher (synchronous and
asynchronous block cipher).  The advantages of skcipher include:

  - A much less confusing name, since none of these algorithm types have
    ever actually been for raw block ciphers, but rather for all
    length-preserving encryption modes including block cipher modes of
    operation, stream ciphers, and other length-preserving modes.

  - It unified blkcipher and ablkcipher into a single algorithm type
    which supports both synchronous and asynchronous implementations.
    Note, blkcipher already operated only on scatterlists, so the fact
    that skcipher does too isn't a regression in functionality.

  - Better type safety by using struct skcipher_alg, struct
    crypto_skcipher, etc. instead of crypto_alg, crypto_tfm, etc.

  - It sometimes simplifies the implementations of algorithms.

Also, the blkcipher API was no longer being tested.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>crypto: skcipher - remove crypto_has_ablkcipher()</title>
<updated>2019-11-01T05:38:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-25T19:41:10+00:00</published>
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crypto_has_ablkcipher() has no users, and it does the same thing as
crypto_has_skcipher() anyway.  So remove it.  This also removes the last
user of crypto_skcipher_type() and crypto_skcipher_mask(), so remove
those too.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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crypto_has_ablkcipher() has no users, and it does the same thing as
crypto_has_skcipher() anyway.  So remove it.  This also removes the last
user of crypto_skcipher_type() and crypto_skcipher_mask(), so remove
those too.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: doc - Add parameter documentation</title>
<updated>2019-07-03T14:13:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hook, Gary</name>
<email>Gary.Hook@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-25T23:43:43+00:00</published>
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Fill in missing parameter descriptions for the compression algorithm,
then pick them up to document for the compression_alg structure.

Signed-off-by: Gary R Hook &lt;gary.hook@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Fill in missing parameter descriptions for the compression algorithm,
then pick them up to document for the compression_alg structure.

Signed-off-by: Gary R Hook &lt;gary.hook@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: doc - fix typo</title>
<updated>2017-02-15T05:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gilad Ben-Yossef</name>
<email>gilad@benyossef.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-14T06:21:45+00:00</published>
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Fix a single letter typo in api-skcipher.rst.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Fix a single letter typo in api-skcipher.rst.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: doc - optimize compilation</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T23:38:07+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stephan Mueller</name>
<email>smueller@chronox.de</email>
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<published>2016-10-21T03:00:02+00:00</published>
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The :functions: definition allows the specification of multiple
function references which prevents parsing the header file multiple
times.

Reported-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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The :functions: definition allows the specification of multiple
function references which prevents parsing the header file multiple
times.

Reported-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: doc - remove crypto_alloc_ablkcipher</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T23:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Mueller</name>
<email>smueller@chronox.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-21T02:58:46+00:00</published>
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Remove the documentation reference to crypto_alloc_ablkcipher as the API
function call was removed.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Remove the documentation reference to crypto_alloc_ablkcipher as the API
function call was removed.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: doc - convert crypto API documentation to Sphinx</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T23:37:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Mueller</name>
<email>smueller@chronox.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-21T02:54:22+00:00</published>
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With the conversion of the kernel crypto API DocBook to Sphinx, the
monolithic document is broken up into individual documents. The
documentation is unchanged with the exception of a slight reordering to
keep the individual document parts self-contained.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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With the conversion of the kernel crypto API DocBook to Sphinx, the
monolithic document is broken up into individual documents. The
documentation is unchanged with the exception of a slight reordering to
keep the individual document parts self-contained.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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