----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos" <n...@gnutls.org> > To: "Tom St Denis" <tstde...@elliptictech.com> > Cc: cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org > Sent: Thursday, 20 September, 2012 3:52:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Cryptodev-linux-devel] Combined mode support? > > On 09/20/2012 04:55 PM, Tom St Denis wrote: > > > I see that cryptodev supports AEAD mode with GCM but are there any > > plans to add AEAD support for generic cipher/hash modes? Some > > crypto hardware support these modes and it would be nice to have > > access to it via the userspace API. > > The current AEAD code supports that for TLS and SRTP encryption > (check > the example aes-sha1.c). The problem is that encryption with > authentication is performed very different on various protocols.
Some modes are common though for instance the IPsec drivers use "authenc(cipher,hash)". But I agree it could be complicated. Tom _______________________________________________ Cryptodev-linux-devel mailing list Cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/cryptodev-linux-devel
