@@ -1291,60 +1291,72 @@ config CRYPTO_KDF800108_CTR
select CRYPTO_SHA256
endmenu
-menu "User-space interface"
+menu "Userspace interface"
config CRYPTO_USER_API
tristate
config CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH
- tristate "User-space interface for hash algorithms"
+ tristate "Hash algorithms"
depends on NET
select CRYPTO_HASH
select CRYPTO_USER_API
help
- This option enables the user-spaces interface for hash
- algorithms.
+ Enable the userspace interface for hash algorithms.
+
+ See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and
+ https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html
config CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER
- tristate "User-space interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms"
+ tristate "Symmetric key cipher algorithms"
depends on NET
select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER
select CRYPTO_USER_API
help
- This option enables the user-spaces interface for symmetric
- key cipher algorithms.
+ Enable the userspace interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms.
+
+ See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and
+ https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html
config CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG
- tristate "User-space interface for random number generator algorithms"
+ tristate "RNG (random number generator) algorithms"
depends on NET
select CRYPTO_RNG
select CRYPTO_USER_API
help
- This option enables the user-spaces interface for random
- number generator algorithms.
+ Enable the userspace interface for RNG (random number generator)
+ algorithms.
+
+ See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and
+ https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html
config CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG_CAVP
bool "Enable CAVP testing of DRBG"
depends on CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG && CRYPTO_DRBG
help
- This option enables extra API for CAVP testing via the user-space
- interface: resetting of DRBG entropy, and providing Additional Data.
+ Enable extra APIs in the userspace interface for NIST CAVP
+ (Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program) testing:
+ - resetting DRBG entropy
+ - providing Additional Data
+
This should only be enabled for CAVP testing. You should say
no unless you know what this is.
config CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD
- tristate "User-space interface for AEAD cipher algorithms"
+ tristate "AEAD cipher algorithms"
depends on NET
select CRYPTO_AEAD
select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER
select CRYPTO_NULL
select CRYPTO_USER_API
help
- This option enables the user-spaces interface for AEAD
- cipher algorithms.
+ Enable the userspace interface for AEAD cipher algorithms.
+
+ See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and
+ https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html
config CRYPTO_USER_API_ENABLE_OBSOLETE
- bool "Enable obsolete cryptographic algorithms for userspace"
+ bool "Obsolete cryptographic algorithms"
depends on CRYPTO_USER_API
default y
help
@@ -1353,16 +1365,21 @@ config CRYPTO_USER_API_ENABLE_OBSOLETE
only useful for userspace clients that still rely on them.
config CRYPTO_STATS
- bool "Crypto usage statistics for User-space"
+ bool "Crypto usage statistics"
depends on CRYPTO_USER
help
- This option enables the gathering of crypto stats.
- This will collect:
- - encrypt/decrypt size and numbers of symmeric operations
- - compress/decompress size and numbers of compress operations
- - size and numbers of hash operations
- - encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify numbers for asymmetric operations
- - generate/seed numbers for rng operations
+ Enable the gathering of crypto stats.
+
+ This collects data sizes, numbers of requests, and numbers
+ of errors processed by:
+ - AEAD ciphers (encrypt, decrypt)
+ - asymmetric key ciphers (encrypt, decrypt, verify, sign)
+ - symmetric key ciphers (encrypt, decrypt)
+ - compression algorithms (compress, decompress)
+ - hash algorithms (hash)
+ - key-agreement protocol primitives (setsecret, generate
+ public key, compute shared secret)
+ - RNG (generate, seed)
endmenu
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent: - acronym - name - architecture features in parenthesis - no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or "hardware acceleration", or "optimized" Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that https references are still valid. Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com> --- crypto/Kconfig | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)