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18.Dd April 12, 2021
19.Dt CRYPTO 9
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm crypto
23.Nd API for cryptographic services in the kernel
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.In opencrypto/cryptodev.h
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27.Nm
28is a framework for in-kernel cryptography.
29It permits in-kernel consumers to encrypt and decrypt data
30and also enables userland applications to use cryptographic hardware
31through the
32.Pa /dev/crypto
33device.
34.Pp
35.Nm
36supports encryption and decryption operations
37using block and stream ciphers as well as computation and verification
38of message authentication codes (MACs).
39Consumers allocate sessions to describe a transform as discussed in
40.Xr crypto_session 9 .
41Consumers then allocate request objects to describe each transformation
42such as encrypting a network packet or decrypting a disk sector.
43Requests are described in
44.Xr crypto_request 9 .
45.Pp
46Device drivers are responsible for processing requests submitted by
47consumers.
48.Xr crypto_driver 9
49describes the interfaces drivers use to register with the framework,
50helper routines the framework provides to facilitate request processing,
51and the interfaces drivers are required to provide.
52.Ss Callbacks
53Since the consumers may not be associated with a process, drivers may
54not
55.Xr sleep 9 .
56The same holds for the framework.
57Thus, a callback mechanism is used
58to notify a consumer that a request has been completed (the
59callback is specified by the consumer on a per-request basis).
60The callback is invoked by the framework whether the request was
61successfully completed or not.
62Errors are reported to the callback function.
63.Pp
64Session initialization does not use callbacks and returns errors
65synchronously.
66.Ss Session Migration
67Operations may fail with a specific error code,
68.Er EAGAIN ,
69to indicate that a session handle has changed and that the
70request may be re-submitted immediately with the new session.
71The consumer should update its saved copy of the session handle
72to the value of
73.Fa crp_session
74so that future requests use the new session.
75.Ss Supported Algorithms
76More details on some algorithms may be found in
77.Xr crypto 7 .
78.Pp
79The following authentication algorithms are supported:
80.Pp
81.Bl -tag -offset indent -width CRYPTO_AES_CCM_CBC_MAC -compact
82.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_CCM_CBC_MAC
83.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_NIST_GMAC
84.It Dv CRYPTO_BLAKE2B
85.It Dv CRYPTO_BLAKE2S
86.It Dv CRYPTO_NULL_HMAC
87.It Dv CRYPTO_POLY1305
88.It Dv CRYPTO_RIPEMD160
89.It Dv CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC
90.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA1
91.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA1_HMAC
92.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_224
93.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_224_HMAC
94.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_256
95.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_256_HMAC
96.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_384
97.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_384_HMAC
98.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_512
99.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_512_HMAC
100.El
101.Pp
102The following encryption algorithms are supported:
103.Pp
104.Bl -tag -offset indent -width CRYPTO_CAMELLIA_CBC -compact
105.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_CBC
106.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_ICM
107.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_XTS
108.It Dv CRYPTO_CAMELLIA_CBC
109.It Dv CRYPTO_CHACHA20
110.It Dv CRYPTO_NULL_CBC
111.El
112.Pp
113The following authenticated encryption with additional data (AEAD)
114algorithms are supported:
115.Pp
116.Bl -tag -offset indent -width CRYPTO_CHACHA20_POLY1305 -compact
117.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_CCM_16
118.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_NIST_GCM_16
119.It Dv CRYPTO_CHACHA20_POLY1305
120.El
121.Pp
122The following compression algorithms are supported:
123.Pp
124.Bl -tag -offset indent -width CRYPTO_DEFLATE_COMP -compact
125.It Dv CRYPTO_DEFLATE_COMP
126.El
127.Sh FILES
128.Bl -tag -width ".Pa sys/opencrypto/crypto.c"
129.It Pa sys/opencrypto/crypto.c
130most of the framework code
131.El
132.Sh SEE ALSO
133.Xr crypto 4 ,
134.Xr ipsec 4 ,
135.Xr crypto 7 ,
136.Xr crypto_driver 9 ,
137.Xr crypto_request 9 ,
138.Xr crypto_session 9 ,
139.Xr sleep 9
140.Sh HISTORY
141The cryptographic framework first appeared in
142.Ox 2.7
143and was written by
144.An Angelos D. Keromytis Aq Mt angelos@openbsd.org .
145.Sh BUGS
146The framework needs a mechanism for determining which driver is
147best for a specific set of algorithms associated with a session.
148Some type of benchmarking is in order here.
149