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| author | Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> | 2018-11-05 15:05:01 +0300 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2018-11-16 09:09:39 +0300 |
| commit | ecd6d5c9cba5fc6053ba21e3f8a4c536f65ea27a (patch) | |
| tree | 48dbb493f2890b9382fbeab4947a98115f961335 /crypto | |
| parent | 2eb4942b6609d35a4e835644a33203b0aef7443d (diff) | |
| download | linux-ecd6d5c9cba5fc6053ba21e3f8a4c536f65ea27a.tar.xz | |
crypto: cts - document NIST standard status
cts(cbc(aes)) as used in the kernel has been added to NIST
standard as CBC-CS3. Document it as such.
Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Suggested-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 752005201013..06eb23cade43 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -430,11 +430,14 @@ config CRYPTO_CTS help CTS: Cipher Text Stealing This is the Cipher Text Stealing mode as described by - Section 8 of rfc2040 and referenced by rfc3962. - (rfc3962 includes errata information in its Appendix A) + Section 8 of rfc2040 and referenced by rfc3962 + (rfc3962 includes errata information in its Appendix A) or + CBC-CS3 as defined by NIST in Sp800-38A addendum from Oct 2010. This mode is required for Kerberos gss mechanism support for AES encryption. + See: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-38a/addendum/final + config CRYPTO_ECB tristate "ECB support" select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER |