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Commit 8d23da22 authored by Stephan Mueller's avatar Stephan Mueller Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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crypto: doc - add KPP documentation 



Add the KPP API documentation to the kernel crypto API Sphinx
documentation. This addition includes the documentation of the
ECDH and DH helpers which are needed to create the approrpiate input
data for the crypto_kpp_set_secret function.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent c30c98d1

Documentation/crypto/api-kpp.rst

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Key-agreement Protocol Primitives (KPP) Cipher Algorithm Definitions

--------------------------------------------------------------------



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_request



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: crypto_kpp



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_alg



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_secret



Key-agreement Protocol Primitives (KPP) Cipher API

--------------------------------------------------



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :doc: Generic Key-agreement Protocol Primitives API



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: crypto_alloc_kpp



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: crypto_free_kpp



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: crypto_kpp_set_secret



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: crypto_kpp_generate_public_key



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: crypto_kpp_compute_shared_secret



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: crypto_kpp_maxsize



Key-agreement Protocol Primitives (KPP) Cipher Request Handle

-------------------------------------------------------------



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_request_alloc



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_request_free



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_request_set_callback



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_request_set_input



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/kpp.h

   :functions: kpp_request_set_output



ECDH Helper Functions

---------------------



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/ecdh.h

   :doc: ECDH Helper Functions



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/ecdh.h

   :functions: ecdh



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/ecdh.h

   :functions: crypto_ecdh_key_len



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/ecdh.h

   :functions: crypto_ecdh_encode_key



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/ecdh.h

   :functions: crypto_ecdh_decode_key



DH Helper Functions

-------------------



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/dh.h

   :doc: DH Helper Functions



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/dh.h

   :functions: dh



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/dh.h

   :functions: crypto_dh_key_len



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/dh.h

   :functions: crypto_dh_encode_key



.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/dh.h

   :functions: crypto_dh_decode_key

Documentation/crypto/api.rst

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@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ the IV. Different IV generators are available. 
   api-digest

   api-rng

   api-akcipher

   api-kpp

Documentation/crypto/architecture.rst

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@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ applicable to a cipher, it is not displayed: 
      entry below for the specification of the IV generator type used by

      the cipher implementation)



   -  kpp for a Key-agreement Protocol Primitive (KPP) cipher such as

      an ECDH or DH implementation



-  blocksize: blocksize of cipher in bytes



-  keysize: key size in bytes
@@ -219,6 +222,9 @@ the aforementioned cipher types: 
   together with an IV generator (see geniv field in the /proc/crypto

   listing for the known IV generators)



-  CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_KPP Key-agreement Protocol Primitive (KPP) such as

   an ECDH or DH implementation



-  CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST Raw message digest



-  CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_HASH Alias for CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST

include/crypto/dh.h

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#ifndef _CRYPTO_DH_

#define _CRYPTO_DH_



/**

 * DOC: DH Helper Functions

 *

 * To use DH with the KPP cipher API, the following data structure and

 * functions should be used.

 *

 * To use DH with KPP, the following functions should be used to operate on

 * a DH private key. The packet private key that can be set with

 * the KPP API function call of crypto_kpp_set_secret.

 */



/**

 * struct dh - define a DH private key

 *

 * @key:	Private DH key

 * @p:		Diffie-Hellman parameter P

 * @g:		Diffie-Hellman generator G

 * @key_size:	Size of the private DH key

 * @p_size:	Size of DH parameter P

 * @g_size:	Size of DH generator G

 */

struct dh {

	void *key;

	void *p;
@@ -22,8 +43,45 @@ struct dh { 
	unsigned int g_size;

};



/**

 * crypto_dh_key_len() - Obtain the size of the private DH key

 * @params:	private DH key

 *

 * This function returns the packet DH key size. A caller can use that

 * with the provided DH private key reference to obtain the required

 * memory size to hold a packet key.

 *

 * Return: size of the key in bytes

 */

int crypto_dh_key_len(const struct dh *params);



/**

 * crypto_dh_encode_key() - encode the private key

 * @buf:	Buffer allocated by the caller to hold the packet DH

 *		private key. The buffer should be at least crypto_dh_key_len

 *		bytes in size.

 * @len:	Length of the packet private key buffer

 * @params:	Buffer with the caller-specified private key

 *

 * The DH implementations operate on a packet representation of the private

 * key.

 *

 * Return:	-EINVAL if buffer has insufficient size, 0 on success

 */

int crypto_dh_encode_key(char *buf, unsigned int len, const struct dh *params);



/**

 * crypto_dh_decode_key() - decode a private key

 * @buf:	Buffer holding a packet key that should be decoded

 * @len:	Lenth of the packet private key buffer

 * @params:	Buffer allocated by the caller that is filled with the

 *		unpacket DH private key.

 *

 * The unpacking obtains the private key by pointing @p to the correct location

 * in @buf. Thus, both pointers refer to the same memory.

 *

 * Return:	-EINVAL if buffer has insufficient size, 0 on success

 */

int crypto_dh_decode_key(const char *buf, unsigned int len, struct dh *params);



#endif

include/crypto/ecdh.h

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#ifndef _CRYPTO_ECDH_

#define _CRYPTO_ECDH_



/**

 * DOC: ECDH Helper Functions

 *

 * To use ECDH with the KPP cipher API, the following data structure and

 * functions should be used.

 *

 * The ECC curves known to the ECDH implementation are specified in this

 * header file.

 *

 * To use ECDH with KPP, the following functions should be used to operate on

 * an ECDH private key. The packet private key that can be set with

 * the KPP API function call of crypto_kpp_set_secret.

 */



/* Curves IDs */

#define ECC_CURVE_NIST_P192	0x0001

#define ECC_CURVE_NIST_P256	0x0002



/**

 * struct ecdh - define an ECDH private key

 *

 * @curve_id:	ECC curve the key is based on.

 * @key:	Private ECDH key

 * @key_size:	Size of the private ECDH key

 */

struct ecdh {

	unsigned short curve_id;

	char *key;

	unsigned short key_size;

};



/**

 * crypto_ecdh_key_len() - Obtain the size of the private ECDH key

 * @params:	private ECDH key

 *

 * This function returns the packet ECDH key size. A caller can use that

 * with the provided ECDH private key reference to obtain the required

 * memory size to hold a packet key.

 *

 * Return: size of the key in bytes

 */

int crypto_ecdh_key_len(const struct ecdh *params);



/**

 * crypto_ecdh_encode_key() - encode the private key

 * @buf:	Buffer allocated by the caller to hold the packet ECDH

 *		private key. The buffer should be at least crypto_ecdh_key_len

 *		bytes in size.

 * @len:	Length of the packet private key buffer

 * @p:		Buffer with the caller-specified private key

 *

 * The ECDH implementations operate on a packet representation of the private

 * key.

 *

 * Return:	-EINVAL if buffer has insufficient size, 0 on success

 */

int crypto_ecdh_encode_key(char *buf, unsigned int len, const struct ecdh *p);



/**

 * crypto_ecdh_decode_key() - decode a private key

 * @buf:	Buffer holding a packet key that should be decoded

 * @len:	Lenth of the packet private key buffer

 * @p:		Buffer allocated by the caller that is filled with the

 *		unpacket ECDH private key.

 *

 * The unpacking obtains the private key by pointing @p to the correct location

 * in @buf. Thus, both pointers refer to the same memory.

 *

 * Return:	-EINVAL if buffer has insufficient size, 0 on success

 */

int crypto_ecdh_decode_key(const char *buf, unsigned int len, struct ecdh *p);



#endif