libkcapi-0.1.0

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libkcapi-0.2.0

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• Add kcapi_aead_[enc|dec]_* calls for non-aligned requests
• Updated kernel patch to match what has been sent to LKML
• Documentation of API calls and data structures completed
• Add kcapi_md_digestsize
• Add sanity checking to IV setting API
• Add kcapi_pad_iv
• Add sanity check around getsockopt wrapper API call
• API documentation marks input / output parameters
• API documentation explains AEAD decryption EBADMSG error code
• Update of teets to cover all changed / new API calls

libkcapi-0.2.1

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• Add automation to generate nicely formatted guidance documents out of source code comments. See README.md for make targets generating the respective guidance documents.

libkcapi-0.3.0

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• new kernel patch for AEAD/RNG interface
• Support for updated AEAD kernel interface
• Use of NETLINK_CRYPTO instead of getsockopt (code currently disabled due to a bug in crypto/crypto_user.c -- see TODO)

libkcapi-0.4.0

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• update AEAD cipher interface for current implemetation
• remove nonalinged API
• add one-shot and stream API
• use zero copy interface for one-shot APi
• add tests to cover one-shot and stream API
• full documentation update
• stress testing the library and the AEAD/RNG implementation

libkcapi-0.5.0

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• kernel interface for AEAD and RNG changed
• add kcapi_rng_seed API call

libkcapi-0.6.1

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• add kcapi_md_blocksize
• add stress / negative testing
• add hint to NETLINK_CRYPTO patch requirement

libkcapi-0.6.2

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• update all vmsplice invocations to consider the limitations of the pipe buffer of 16 pages (the limitation in the kernel is enforced by vmsplice_to_pipe setting nr_pages_max and splice_from_pipe_feed which iterates over the available pipe->nrbufs) - this fixes message digests and symmetric operations for input data larger than 16 pages; the AEAD cipher contains a sanity check that the input data size is not too large -- thanks to Amit Uttamchandani for the bug report
• update aead/rng kernel pages to match 3.19-rc1

libkcapi-0.6.3

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• Remove several sanity checks in the API functions. This shall allow the invocation of edge conditions (like no plaintext, but AAD and tag). The kernel contains the appropriate sanity checks too. Therefore there is no harm in removing them.
• Add testing of long AAD: fill 16 pages with 65504 bytes AAD and 32 bytes plaintext (stream API) and 15 pages AAD plus 16th page holding plaintext (one-shot API).
• Update AEAD interface to allow arbitrary AAD sizes.

libkcapi-0.6.4

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• Update AEAD interface patch
• Add new test invoking cipher instance multiple times (-d flag of test application)

libkcapi-0.6.5

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• Measuring speed of vmsplice vs sendmsg interfaces and added heuristic to select the fastest implementation
• Enhance documentation to explain usage of API better
• added speed measuring tests in speed-test/
• return errno for all syscalls through the API return codes for better error handling
• process kernel flag of MSG_TRUNG for AEAD ciphers

libkcapi-0.7.0

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• AEAD kernel part does not relay MSG_TRUNC any more, thus using the read syscall is more efficient
• remove kcapi_cipher_setiv and add an IV parameter to all necessary API calls. This prevents the requirement for a function call and requiring the caller to maintain the IV buffer
• add vmsplice tests to test framework to make sure vmsplice is really executed
• fix documentation style
• allow caller to specify which kernel interface (sendmsg / vmsplice) is used for one-shot API calls. This implies extension of one-shot API calls
• Update stream API tests for AEAD to use 16 IOVECs to test the latest installment of the recvmsg interface of algif_aead

libkcapi-0.7.1

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• AEAD kernel interface is now upstreamed, reference the patches in the documentation appropriately and remove the patches from the kernel patch tree.
• Test: add rfc4106(gcm(aes)) tests to general test and to speed test
• Speed test: invoke the ciphers 10 times before time measurement to prime the caches.

libkcapi-0.7.2

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• Move the library code into the directory lib/
• Fix issues reported by cppcheck
• AEAD: allow encrypt/decrypt invocations with NULL AAD and NULL PT/CT
• AEAD: add test for NULL AAD and NULL PT/CT
• RNG: always invoke seeding operation, even when seed is NULL

libkcapi-0.8.0

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• Fix test.sh to invoke large AEAD test
• All kcapi_*_destroy functions are void now
• Update AEAD code to new kernel interface and update the AEAD API
• Simplify the code for AEAD
• Add and use kcapi_memset_secure
• Add AIO logic - but disable it for now
• Add drop in replacements for sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum and md5sum, fipscheck/fipshmac, hmaccalc
• Remove the kernel-patch/ directory as its code is not consistent with the library any more. Use the current cryptodev-2.6 tree from Herbert Xu.

libkcapi-0.9.0

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• Addition of asymmetric API.

libkcapi-0.10.0

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• simplify kcapi_aead_encrypt and kcapi_aead_decrypt
• comment out message truncation check
• test.sh: fix RFC4106 IV handling for kernels >= 4.2 due to overhaul of AEAD support in the kernel
• use zero-copy in stream operation if possible
• Add set_pubkey API call
• convert entire API to use data types with known sizes (i.e. stdint.h)
• Add asymmetric tests to test.sh
• Add asymmetric stream cipher API
• update documentation to cover akcipher API
• Addition of asymmetric API.

libkcapi-0.10.1

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• Fix issues with the vmsplice usage in stream mode
• Fix issues with the vmsplice usage in chunk mode
• Any modification on the tfmfd must be performed before the accept() call as mandated by the update to kernel 4.4.
• Add support for processing of arbitrary sized symmetric cipher input

libkcapi-0.10.2

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• Fix kernel netlink parsing error message
• doc: add hint for setting keys before sending data
• fix compiler warnings about unsigned / signed comparisons

libkcapi-0.11.0

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• Convert all libkcapi data structures into opaque structures. This implies that the *_init functions require a reference to a pointer as these init functions now allocate the struct kcapi_handle data structure.
• Add clean and consistent logging logic
• fixed execution when CONFIG_CRYPTO_FIPS is disabled in kernel
• mark all symbols except API as hidden
• performance measurements for kcapi_md_update added
• update speed tests for newer AVX/AVX2 kernel handling
• update documentation to mark all parameters as [in] or [out]

libkcapi-0.11.1

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• move version information to kcapi.h to allow compile time tests for wrapping applications
• fix error code path mem leaks in _kcapi_handle_init reported by cppcheck

libkcapi-0.12.0

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• add version.lds
• add KDF API
• add PBKDF API
• update Makefile to look for environment
• bug fix speed test
• add AIO support (this code is derived from the example code developed by Tadeusz Struk -- thanks a lot) together with AIO test cases
• Move DSO_PUBLIC out of the public header file into the private header file
• use _kcapi_cipher_crypt for AEAD operations - eliminate code duplication
• update AEAD tests to verify that the kernel follows the memory and processing structure defined for in-kernel users. Note, the testing will assume the old AF_ALG interface handling up to and including 4.9.x. The new AF_ALG AEAD interface is assumed to be present starting with 4.10.0. Note, the interface differences are only visible in the return code of recv which is checked by the test cases. Otherwise, user space sees no difference.

libkcapi-0.13.0

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• change kcapi_aead_encrypt_aio, kcapi_aead_decrypt_aio, kcapi_cipher_encrypt_aio and kcapi_cipher_decrypt_aio to require the user to provide IOVECs for input and output buffers separately
• addition of kcapi_aead_inbuflen_enc, kcapi_aead_inbuflen_dec, kcapi_aead_outbuflen_enc, kcapi_aead_outbuflen_dec, kcapi_aead_getdata_input, kcapi_aead_getdata_output to allow apps to be programmed without specific code handling for old and new AEAD AF_ALG interface (AAD and tag handling). See the documentation section "AEAD Memory Structure" for an explanation on how to use the API in a way to make the calling application agnostic of the kernel interface differences.
• significant addition to library to handle old / new AEAD AF_ALG interface without the caller being aware of that
• change AEAD tests such to use the new API calls to make code independent of AEAD interface changes
• split up of the library implementation into individual files to allow a more clear code management and to allow even to selectively disable code to make the library smaller
• various small fixes suggested by Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek
• fix memleak in kcapi_*_destroy suggested by Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek
• use hard-links for the kcapi-hasher apps
• add bi-arch tests
• add check that AIO interface is only initialized if the kernel supports AIO (library requires kernel 4.1.0 or larger for skcipher AIO and 4.7.0 or larger for AEAD AIO support)
• add transparent fallback in case the caller requests AIO operation but the AIO interface was not or could not be initialized -- the AIO API can be used on systems without AIO support as the library transparently falls back to the non-AIO operation (however, the library complains at the beginning about the use of the AIO API on unsupported systems).

libkcapi-0.14.0

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(tarball updated on 2017-08-08 to add the speed-test directory)

• AIO: fix tracking of completed IOCBs
• speed-test: fix AEAD handling
• speed-test: fix time calculation
• compiler now warns a user of deprecated API calls
• AIO: handle kernel errors for algif_skcipher gracefully
• AIO: using multiple IOCB if algif_aead interface supports it
• ASYM: add PKCS1 tests
• AIO: add ASYM AIO support
• AIO: fix AEAD AIO fallback
• AIO: add AIO fallback testing
• replace enforcement of symmetric cipher limits with a log message only (the underlying kernel implementations should catch any errors)
• add fuzzing tests
• use autotools build system as provided by Georges Savoundararadj with additional considerations from Marcin Nowakowski (thanks a lot)
• ALG_MAX_PAGES restriction is gone with current AF_ALG interface
• add HKDF (RFC5869)
• add apps/kcapi-rng
• add support for multiple accepts where the caller maintains the opfd
• fix memleak in error case in PBKDF
• add multithreaded symmetric cipher tests
• enable full AIO support for kernels 4.13 and higher (fallback AIO implementation using synchronous support for earlier kernels) -- this is due to the broken AIO support for earlier kernels
• Add tests for the AAD copy operation to be supported for kernel 4.13

libkcapi-1.0.0

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• Fix: Small compile fixes for new checks of GCC 7
• API Change: Rename all LOG_* enums to KCAPI_LOG_* to prevent namespace poisoning
• Fix: soname and file name of library now compiles with conventions (thanks to Marcus Meissner)
• Fix: kcapi-rng.c: unify FD/syscall read code and fix __NR_getrandom resolution
• Enhancement: add kcapi-enc application to access symmetric encryption on command line
• Fix: consolidate duplicate code in kcapi-hasher
• Enhancement: add kcapi-dgst application to access hashes on command line
• Enhancement: add kcapi-rng man page
• Enhancement: add kcapi-rng --hex command line option
• Fix: enable full symmetric AIO support
• Fix: consolidate all test code into test/ and invoke all tests with test-invocation.sh
• Fix: fix memleaks in error code paths as reported by clang
• Fix: reduce memory footprint by rearranging data structures
• Fix: kcapi-hasher is now fully FIPS 140-2 compliant as it now includes the integrity test for libkcapi.so
• Enhancement: Add speed tests for MV-CESA accelerated ciphers and hash algorithms (thanks to Bastian Stender)
• Test Enhancement: add kcapi-enc-test-large.c test testing edge conditions of AF_ALG
• Test Enhancement: add virttest.sh - use of test system based on eudyptula-boot to test on linux-4.3.6, linux-4.4.86, linux-4.5, linux-4.7, linux-4.10, linux-4.12
• Test Enhancement: add kcapi-fuzz-test.sh to support fuzzing the AF_ALG interfaces
• Enhancement: add RPM SPEC file (tested with Fedora 26)
• API Change: replace --disable-lib-asym with --enable-lib-asym as the algif_akcipher.c kernel interface is not likely to be added to the kernel anytime soon
• API Enhancement: add KPP API which is not compiled by default, use --enable-lib-kpp (the algif_kpp.c kernel interface is not likely to be added to the Linux kernel any time soon)
• Test Enhancement: Add KPP tests
• Enhancement: Re-enable AIO support for symmetric and AEAD ciphers down to Linux kernels 4.1 and 4.7, respectively. This is due to integrating a fix against a kernel crash when using AIO.
• Fix: simply KDF code base
• API Enhancement: add message digest convenience functions kcapi_md_*sha*
• API Enhancement: add cipher convenience functions kcapi_cipher_*_aes_*
• API Enhancement: add rng convenience function kcapi_rng_get_bytes
• API Change: remove kcapi_aead_getdata, use kcapi_aead_getdata_input and kcapi_aead_getdata_output instead
• API Change: remove kcapi_aead_outbuflen, use kcapi_aead_outbuflen_enc and kcapi_aead_outbuflen_dec instead

libkcapi-1.0.1

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• Fix: constify AEAD cipher input data
• Fix: use GCC byte swapping acceleration if present
• Fix: KDF counter handling on little endian systems when generating more than 255 blocks
• Use LD_PRELOAD for execution of test cases to force using of the freshly compiled binaries
• Fix: return code handling of _kcapi_common_vmsplice_chunk_fd as reported by Christophe Leroy
• Fix: return code handling in _kcapi_md_update
• Fix: kcapi-hasher now supports files larger than 2GB
• Fix: kcapi-dgst now supports files larger than 2GB
• Fix: use stack protector
• Fix: rename header guards to remove leading underscore as pointed out by Markus Elfring
• Test Fix: Allow compiing the test code without asymmetric and KPP support

libkcapi-1.0.2

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• Fix: hasher-test.sh on 32-bit systems
• Fix: AIO return code handling on large number of requests -- reported by Jonathan Cameron
• Enhancement: disable coredumps of library
• Fix: remove unchecked -fstack-protector-strong from Makefile -- reported by Mathieu Malaterre
• Fix: document that kcapi_cipher_stream_op must be called in a loop to collect all data in a multhreaded environment.
• Test Fix: Update symmetric multithreaded stream test to invoke kcapi_cipher_stream_op in a loop to collect all data.
• Fix: Initialize the cipher handle on stack with zeros as the library expects a zero-initialized cipher handle. This fixes a possible segfault where free() is called on a non-initialized memory location.
• Fix: port algif_kpp and algif_akcipher to 4.15-rc3

libkcapi-1.0.3

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• Fix: support STDIN and --tag of sha*sum applications
• Enhancement: Add small enhancements to support integration with distros -- reported by Björn Esser

libkcapi-1.1.0

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• API Enhancement: Addition of kcapi_handle_reinit
• Fix: simplify code by removing the internal *_fd functions from kcapi-kernel-if.c
• Test enhancement: add IIV speed testing
• Fix: add a loop around the read system call to always obtain all generated data
• Fix: use host compiler for compiling docproc (reported by Christophe LEROY, fixed by Björn Esser)
• Fix: make error handling of hashing applications consistent with coreutils applications (reported by Christophe LEROY)
• Fix: support for zero length files (patched by Ondrej Mosnáček)
• Fix: support for zero message hashes on kernels <= 4.9 (patched by Ondrej Mosnáček)
• Fix: Add Travis CI test system provided by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Fix: Add several fixes to kcapi-hasher by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Fix: Add additional tests for kcapi-hasher by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Fix: Apply unpadding only to last block of data by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Fix: Fix resource leaks in error code paths suggested by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Enhancement: achieve hmaccalc CLI equivalence by Ondrej Mosnáček

libkcapi-1.1.1

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• Fix: Bug fixes for kcapi_hasher by Ondrej Mosnáček

libkcapi-1.1.2

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• Fix: Bug fixes for GCC 8.1.0 regarding string length checks by Krzysztof Kozlowski
• Enhancement: ensure that tests execute on architectures other than X86 by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Fix: Bug fix to initialize FDs at the correct time in kcapi-kernel-if.c by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Test fix: Support test execution outside build environment by Ondrej Mosnáček

libkcapi-1.1.3

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• Fix: default location of FIPS 140-2 HMAC control file is .<orig file>.hmac (was accidentally moved to <orig file>.hmac with 1.1.0)

libkcapi-1.1.4

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• Fix: use sendmsg when processing more than 1<<16 bytes input data which improves performance on some architectures

libkcapi-1.1.5

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• Fix invocation of ansi_cprng in FIPS mode during testing
• Fix testing on kernels >= 5.0
• Add virtualization test for kernel 5.1
• Fix the limit between vmsplice() and sendmsg() by Christophe Leroy
• Fix remove code duplication by Ondrej Mosnáček
• Fix potential memleak in speed-test

libkcapi-1.2.0

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• enhancement: kcapi-hasher: add madvise and 64 bit support by Brandur Simonsen
• fix: fix clang warnding in KDF implementation by Khem Raj
• fix: fix inverted logic in kcapi-main test logic reported by Ondrej Mosnáček
• fix: return error when iteration count is zero for PBKDF as reported by Guido Vranken
• enhancement: add function kcapi_cipher_stream_update_last to indicate the last block of a symmetric cipher stream operation
• disable XTS multithreaded tests as it triggers a race discussed in https://github.com/smuellerDD/libkcapi/issues/92
• disable AIO parallel tests due to undefined behavior

libkcapi-1.2.1

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• fix: MSG_MORE usage: With kernel 5.9, a precise use of MSG_MORE is mandatory to support a stream cipher approach (init -> update -> update -> ... -> final). All but the last update operations must use MSG_MORE, the last update operation must not use MSG_MORE.
• add automated test for Linux kernel 5.8 and 5.9

libkcapi-1.3.0

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• fix: disable io_getevents on systems that do not support it (by Khem Raj)
• fix: remove prctl PR_SET_DUMPABLE to allow library to be debugged - as the library does not store any sensitive data in data structures it owns, such security precautions may not be necessary considering the benefit of allowing regular debugging
• fix: ensure that sendmsg is always used as fallback when vmsplice cannot be used
• enhancement: add kcapi_set_maxsplicesize and kcapi_get_maxsplicesize
• enhancement: the variable types are changed from int32_t to ssize_t and from uint32_t to size_t to match common POSIX and Linux APIs

libkcapi-1.3.1

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• fix: fix -Wconversion warnings (by Ondrej Mosnacek)
• fix: fix bad data types in _kcapi_common_send_meta (by Ondrej Mosnacek)
• fix: Version symbols to maintain ABI compatibility (by Simo Sorce)

libkcapi-1.4.0

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• fix: ensure that LTO is supported (by Simo Sorce)
• fix: add LTO regression testing (by Ondrej Mosnacek)
• enhancement: add sm3sum, sm3hmac tools, add APIs kcapi_md_sm3, kcapi_md_hmac_sm3
• enhancement: add SM4 convenience functions
• fix: support AEAD encryption of arbitrary size with kcapi-enc