Different block cipher modes have different requirements for intialisation
vectors. For example, CBC can use a simple randomly generated IV while
modes such as CTR must use an IV generation mechanisms that give a stronger
guarantee on the lack of collisions. Furthermore, disk encryption modes
have their own IV generation algorithms.
Up until now IV generation has been left to the users of the symmetric
key cipher API. This is inconvenient as the number of block cipher modes
increase because the user needs to be aware of which mode is supposed to
be paired with which IV generation algorithm.
Therefore it makes sense to integrate the IV generation into the crypto
API. This patch takes the first step in that direction by creating two
new ablkcipher operations, givencrypt and givdecrypt that generates an
IV before performing the actual encryption or decryption.
The operations are currently not exposed to the user. That will be done
once the underlying functionality has actually been implemented.
It also creates the underlying givcipher type. Algorithms that directly
generate IVs would use it instead of ablkcipher. All other algorithms
(including all existing ones) would generate a givcipher algorithm upon
registration. This givcipher algorithm will be constructed from the geniv
string that's stored in every algorithm. That string will locate a template
which is instantiated by the blkcipher/ablkcipher algorithm in question to
give a givcipher algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Note: From now on the collective of ablkcipher/blkcipher/givcipher will
be known as skcipher, i.e., symmetric key cipher. The name blkcipher has
always been much of a misnomer since it supports stream ciphers too.
This patch adds the function crypto_grab_skcipher as a new way of getting
an ablkcipher spawn. The problem is that previously we did this in two
steps, first getting the algorithm and then calling crypto_init_spawn.
This meant that each spawn user had to be aware of what type and mask to
use for these two steps. This is difficult and also presents a problem
when the type/mask changes as they're about to be for IV generators.
The new interface does both steps together just like crypto_alloc_ablkcipher.
As a side-effect this also allows us to be stronger on type enforcement
for spawns. For now this is only done for ablkcipher but it's trivial
to extend for other types.
This patch also moves the type/mask logic for skcipher into the helpers
crypto_skcipher_type and crypto_skcipher_mask.
Finally this patch introduces the function crypto_require_sync to determine
whether the user is specifically requesting a sync algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Since not everyone needs a queue pointer and those who need it can
always get it from the context anyway the queue pointer in the
common alg object is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch ensures that kernel.h and slab.h are included for
the setkey_unaligned function. It also breaks a couple of
long lines.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
setkey_unaligned() commited in ca7c39385c
overwrites unallocated memory in the following memset() because
I used the wrong buffer length.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Evgeniy's hifn driver and probably mine don't use ablkcipher->queue at all.
The show method of ablkcipher will access this field without checking if it
is valid.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <linux-crypto@ml.breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
setkey() in {cipher,blkcipher,ablkcipher,hash}.c does not respect the
requested alignment by the algorithm. This patch fixes it. The extra
memory is allocated by kmalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC flag.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <linux-crypto@ml.breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch adds the mid-level interface for asynchronous block ciphers.
It also includes a generic queueing mechanism that can be used by other
asynchronous crypto operations in future.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
