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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/crypto/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/arch/arm/crypto/Kconfig b/arch/arm/crypto/Kconfig index ef0c7feea6e2..0473a8f68389 100644 --- a/arch/arm/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/crypto/Kconfig @@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ config CRYPTO_AES_ARM help Use optimized AES assembler routines for ARM platforms. + On ARM processors without the Crypto Extensions, this is the + fastest AES implementation for single blocks. For multiple + blocks, the NEON bit-sliced implementation is usually faster. + + This implementation may be vulnerable to cache timing attacks, + since it uses lookup tables. However, as countermeasures it + disables IRQs and preloads the tables; it is hoped this makes + such attacks very difficult. + config CRYPTO_AES_ARM_BS tristate "Bit sliced AES using NEON instructions" depends on KERNEL_MODE_NEON |