From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ofir Drang <Ofir.Drang@arm.com>,
Yael Chemla <Yael.Chemla@arm.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: cts: document NIST standard status
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 12:05:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1541419502-7286-1-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com> (raw)
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>
---
crypto/Kconfig | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index f7a235d..9176023 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
--
2.7.4
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2018-11-05 12:05 Gilad Ben-Yossef [this message]
2018-11-05 12:15 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-16 6:16 ` Herbert Xu
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