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authorStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>2016-02-16 11:33:13 +0100
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2016-02-17 04:07:54 +0800
commit3981d37ff380f1033fef839935bbf9774ed48f00 (patch)
tree59648eb643d47aba89dbcc3427682e701db5baf1 /include/crypto/aead.h
parent649e2007d9ce81d67ad985aff28b3a9d243c4c22 (diff)
crypto: doc - update AEAD AD handling
The associated data handling with the kernel crypto API has been updated. This needs to be reflected in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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diff --git a/include/crypto/aead.h b/include/crypto/aead.h
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@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@
*
* For example: authenc(hmac(sha256), cbc(aes))
*
- * The example code provided for the asynchronous block cipher operation
- * applies here as well. Naturally all *ablkcipher* symbols must be exchanged
+ * The example code provided for the symmetric key cipher operation
+ * applies here as well. Naturally all *skcipher* symbols must be exchanged
* the *aead* pendants discussed in the following. In addition, for the AEAD
- * operation, the aead_request_set_assoc function must be used to set the
+ * operation, the aead_request_set_ad function must be used to set the
* pointer to the associated data memory location before performing the
* encryption or decryption operation. In case of an encryption, the associated
* data memory is filled during the encryption operation. For decryption, the