Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] crypto: Documentation - crypto API high level spec

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:18:29PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER	Raw block cipher
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_COMPRESS	Compression
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AEAD		Authenticated Encryption with 
> Associated Data
> > > (MAC) + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER	Synchronous multi-block cipher
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER	Asynchronous multi-block cipher
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_GIVCIPHER
> > 
> > What's this one?
> 
> I would like to ask Herbert what that is -- I looked around in the code and I 
> am not sure what that flag shall indicate.

givcipher is an ablkcipher packed together with an IV generator.

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