05/08/2020 17:15, Arek Kusztal: > This patch announces removal of RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_AES_GMAC > from rte_crypto_auth_algorithm and addition of RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GMAC > to rte_crypto_aead_algorithm. > AES-GMAC is variation of AES-GCM algorithm with the difference that > it does not perform encryption. As a matter of fact internally > there is no difference between GMAC and GCM except for the way how > data is passed. > Moving GMAC to AEAD can simplify way of implementing this alogrithm > for example in IPsec (RFC4543). > > Signed-off-by: Arek Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusz...@intel.com> > --- > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +* cryptodev: ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_AES_GMAC`` will no longer be included in > + ``enum rte_crypto_auth_algorithm``. It will be included in > + ``enum rte_crypto_aead_algorithm`` as ``RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GMAC``.
I wonder whether this move shows a problem in classification of the crypto algorithms. Anyway this proposal didn't meet its audience. Because of the lack of ack (3 required), it cannot be accepted.
