CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER: Symmetric key cipher algorithms (deprecated)

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER has multiple definitions:

Symmetric key cipher algorithms (deprecated) found in crypto/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER:

• prompt: Symmetric key cipher algorithms (deprecated)
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_NET
• defined in crypto/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 7.2-rc+HEAD
• modules built: algif_skcipher

Help text

Enable the AF_ALG userspace interface for symmetric key algorithms. This provides unprivileged userspace programs access to arbitrary symmetric key algorithms implemented in the kernel's privileged execution context.

This interface is deprecated and is supported only for backwards compatibility. It regularly has vulnerabilities, and the capabilities it provides are redundant with userspace crypto libraries.

Enable this only if needed for support for a program that hasn't yet been converted to userspace crypto, for example iwd, or cryptsetup with certain algorithms.

See also Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst

Symmetric key cipher algorithms found in crypto/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER:

• prompt: Symmetric key cipher algorithms
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_NET
• defined in crypto/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.1–6.19, 7.0–7.1
• modules built: algif_skcipher

Help text

Enable the userspace interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms.

See Documentation/crypto/userspace-if.rst and https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/index.html

User-space interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms found in crypto/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER:

• prompt: User-space interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_NET
• defined in crypto/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.38–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0, 6.0+HEAD
• modules built: algif_skcipher

Help text

This option enables the user-spaces interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module algif_skcipher CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER : crypto/Kconfig : "Symmetric key cipher algorithms (deprecated)" # in 2.6.38–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.19, 7.0–7.1, 7.2-rc+HEAD

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