Re: [Ocf-linux-users] AEAD support in OCF

[David M. <Dav...@se...>]

Jivin Gokhale, Gandhar lays it down ...
> Hi,
> 
> I??m working on designing an OCF driver to be used by Linux IPsec stack. I??m trying to gather information about how ??aead?? (Authenticated Encryption with Associate Data) type of algorithms can be supported with OCF. I searched this mailing list but could not get any discussion on this particular topic. Have any aead algorithms been supported via OCF? If yes, is there any resource that discusses the details of the same? Any help is highly appreciated.

OCF has always been able to do AEAD.

Not sure if it's documented specifically.  The OCF design paper discusses
alg chaining (AEAD wasn't the term back then ;-)

	http://openbsd.org/papers/ocf.pdf

Almost all the existing drivers implement it and openswan ipsec_ocf.c
gives you a fairly easy to follow example of how to use it.

If you need more info feel free to ask at any time,

Cheers,
Davidm

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