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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 2e7f08ba0675..455a3354e291 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -647,11 +647,12 @@ config CRYPTO_VPMSUM_TESTER Unless you are testing these algorithms, you don't need this. config CRYPTO_GHASH - tristate "GHASH digest algorithm" + tristate "GHASH hash function" select CRYPTO_GF128MUL select CRYPTO_HASH help - GHASH is message digest algorithm for GCM (Galois/Counter Mode). + GHASH is the hash function used in GCM (Galois/Counter Mode). + It is not a general-purpose cryptographic hash function. config CRYPTO_POLY1305 tristate "Poly1305 authenticator algorithm" @@ -976,12 +977,12 @@ config CRYPTO_WP512 <http://www.larc.usp.br/~pbarreto/WhirlpoolPage.html> config CRYPTO_GHASH_CLMUL_NI_INTEL - tristate "GHASH digest algorithm (CLMUL-NI accelerated)" + tristate "GHASH hash function (CLMUL-NI accelerated)" depends on X86 && 64BIT select CRYPTO_CRYPTD help - GHASH is message digest algorithm for GCM (Galois/Counter Mode). - The implementation is accelerated by CLMUL-NI of Intel. + This is the x86_64 CLMUL-NI accelerated implementation of + GHASH, the hash function used in GCM (Galois/Counter mode). comment "Ciphers" |