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authorSang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>2026-08-24 01:18:14 +0900
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+Unauthenticated encryption
+==========================
+
+These APIs provide support for unauthenticated encryption and decryption,
+including bare stream ciphers and other length-preserving algorithms such as
+block ciphers in XTS mode. The legitimate use cases for these algorithms are:
+
+- Support for legacy protocols that really should have chosen an authenticated
+ mode (or even another primitive entirely) but didn't.
+
+- Internal components of authenticated modes. For example, AES-CTR is used by
+ AES-GCM and AES-CCM internally.
+
+- Storage encryption that cannot accommodate ciphertext expansion. Usually
+ AES-XTS is used for this.
+
+- Stream ciphers for key derivation and random number generation.
+
+Besides the above, these shouldn't be used.
+
+AES-CBC and AES-CBC-CTS
+-----------------------
+
+This API provides support for AES in the CBC and CBC-CTS modes of operation.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-cbc.h
+
+AES-CTR and AES-XCTR
+--------------------
+
+This API provides support for AES in the CTR and XCTR modes of operation.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-ctr.h
+
+AES-ECB
+-------
+
+This API provides support for AES in the ECB mode of operation.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-ecb.h
+
+AES-XTS
+-------
+
+This API provides support for AES in the XTS mode of operation.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-xts.h