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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 65 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 0a385a7aa040..6621122984c0 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -1291,60 +1291,72 @@ config CRYPTO_KDF800108_CTR select CRYPTO_SHA256 endmenu -menu "User-space interface" +menu "Userspace interface" config CRYPTO_USER_API tristate config CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH - tristate "User-space interface for hash algorithms" + tristate "Hash algorithms" depends on NET select CRYPTO_HASH select CRYPTO_USER_API help - This option enables the user-spaces interface for hash - algorithms. + Enable the userspace interface for hash algorithms. + + See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and + https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html config CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER - tristate "User-space interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms" + tristate "Symmetric key cipher algorithms" depends on NET select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER select CRYPTO_USER_API help - This option enables the user-spaces interface for symmetric - key cipher algorithms. + Enable the userspace interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms. + + See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and + https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html config CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG - tristate "User-space interface for random number generator algorithms" + tristate "RNG (random number generator) algorithms" depends on NET select CRYPTO_RNG select CRYPTO_USER_API help - This option enables the user-spaces interface for random - number generator algorithms. + Enable the userspace interface for RNG (random number generator) + algorithms. + + See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and + https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html config CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG_CAVP bool "Enable CAVP testing of DRBG" depends on CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG && CRYPTO_DRBG help - This option enables extra API for CAVP testing via the user-space - interface: resetting of DRBG entropy, and providing Additional Data. + Enable extra APIs in the userspace interface for NIST CAVP + (Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program) testing: + - resetting DRBG entropy + - providing Additional Data + This should only be enabled for CAVP testing. You should say no unless you know what this is. config CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD - tristate "User-space interface for AEAD cipher algorithms" + tristate "AEAD cipher algorithms" depends on NET select CRYPTO_AEAD select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER select CRYPTO_NULL select CRYPTO_USER_API help - This option enables the user-spaces interface for AEAD - cipher algorithms. + Enable the userspace interface for AEAD cipher algorithms. + + See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and + https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html config CRYPTO_USER_API_ENABLE_OBSOLETE - bool "Enable obsolete cryptographic algorithms for userspace" + bool "Obsolete cryptographic algorithms" depends on CRYPTO_USER_API default y help @@ -1353,16 +1365,21 @@ config CRYPTO_USER_API_ENABLE_OBSOLETE only useful for userspace clients that still rely on them. config CRYPTO_STATS - bool "Crypto usage statistics for User-space" + bool "Crypto usage statistics" depends on CRYPTO_USER help - This option enables the gathering of crypto stats. - This will collect: - - encrypt/decrypt size and numbers of symmeric operations - - compress/decompress size and numbers of compress operations - - size and numbers of hash operations - - encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify numbers for asymmetric operations - - generate/seed numbers for rng operations + Enable the gathering of crypto stats. + + This collects data sizes, numbers of requests, and numbers + of errors processed by: + - AEAD ciphers (encrypt, decrypt) + - asymmetric key ciphers (encrypt, decrypt, verify, sign) + - symmetric key ciphers (encrypt, decrypt) + - compression algorithms (compress, decompress) + - hash algorithms (hash) + - key-agreement protocol primitives (setsecret, generate + public key, compute shared secret) + - RNG (generate, seed) endmenu |