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authorGonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>2016-09-26 17:23:22 +0800
committerDaniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>2016-10-19 10:09:24 +0100
commit3c28292f390f642bbb3dba0949ecf36aaf7be0d6 (patch)
tree21c65cff1327d46cac536b32c671b6bcdd696715 /include/crypto/cipher.h
parentf844836ddccf3dbcba142128da5dd8ee618f3e91 (diff)
crypto: add CTR mode support
Introduce CTR mode support for the cipher APIs. CTR mode uses a counter rather than a traditional IV. The counter has additional properties, including a nonce and initial counter block. We reuse the ctx->iv as the counter for conveniences. Both libgcrypt and nettle are support CTR mode, the cipher-builtin doesn't support yet. Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/crypto/cipher.h')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/cipher.h b/include/crypto/cipher.h
index 97638e7bbf..bec9f412b0 100644
--- a/include/crypto/cipher.h
+++ b/include/crypto/cipher.h
@@ -215,16 +215,16 @@ int qcrypto_cipher_decrypt(QCryptoCipher *cipher,
/**
* qcrypto_cipher_setiv:
* @cipher: the cipher object
- * @iv: the initialization vector bytes
+ * @iv: the initialization vector or counter (CTR mode) bytes
* @niv: the length of @iv
* @errpr: pointer to a NULL-initialized error object
*
* If the @cipher object is setup to use a mode that requires
- * initialization vectors, this sets the initialization vector
+ * initialization vectors or counter, this sets the @niv
* bytes. The @iv data should have the same length as the
* cipher key used when originally constructing the cipher
* object. It is an error to set an initialization vector
- * if the cipher mode does not require one.
+ * or counter if the cipher mode does not require one.
*
* Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
*/