Commit bf6120a0 authored by James Morris's avatar James Morris Committed by David S. Miller

[CRYPTO]: Documentation updates.

parent 8a9c1270
......@@ -38,9 +38,8 @@ The API currently supports three types of transforms: Ciphers, Digests and
Compressors. The compression algorithms especially seem to be performing
very well so far.
An asynchronous scheduling interface is in planning but not yet
implemented, as we need to further analyze the requirements of all of
the possible hardware scenarios (e.g. IPsec NIC offload).
Support for hardware crypto devices via an asynchronous interface is
under development.
Here's an example of how to use the API:
......@@ -87,8 +86,8 @@ also need:
DEVELOPER NOTES
None of this code should be called from hardirq context, only softirq and
user contexts.
Transforms may only be allocated in user context, and cryptographic
methods may only be called from softirq and user contexts.
When using the API for ciphers, performance will be optimal if each
scatterlist contains data which is a multiple of the cipher's block
......@@ -137,16 +136,11 @@ For further patches and various updates, including the current TODO
list, see:
http://samba.org/~jamesm/crypto/
Ongoing development discussion may also be found on
kerneli cryptoapi-devel,
see http://www.kerneli.org/mailman/listinfo/cryptoapi-devel
AUTHORS
James Morris
David S. Miller
Jean-Francois Dive (SHA1 algorithm module)
CREDITS
......@@ -191,6 +185,10 @@ Original developers of the crypto algorithms:
Matthew Skala (Twofish)
Dag Arne Osvik (Serpent)
Brian Gladman (AES)
SHA1 algorithm contributors:
Jean-Francois Dive
DES algorithm contributors:
Raimar Falke
......@@ -216,6 +214,8 @@ AES algorithm contributors:
Kyle McMartin
Adam J. Richter
Generic scatterwalk code by Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Please send any credits updates or corrections to:
James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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