[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] [RFC] cryptodev: move AES-GMAC to aead algorithms

[Doherty, Declan]

On 29/07/2020 3:22 PM, Arek Kusztal wrote:
> This is proposal to move AES-GMAC algorithm to AEAD set
> of algorithms. It is however not 100% conformant GMAC as instead of aad pointer
> data to be authenticated is passed normally and  aead.data.length field
> is used to specify length of data to be authenticated.
> Reason behind this move is that GMAC is variant of GCM so it may
> simplify implementations that are using these algorithms (mainly IPsec).
> AES-GMAC therefore needs to be removed from auth algorithms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arek Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com>
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> 

I think  this makes sense in light of how AES-GMAC support is specified 
in the IPsec GMAC rfc (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4543)

Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>