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Now that the 32-bit ARM NEON implementation of ChaCha20 and XChaCha20 has been refactored to support varying the number of rounds, add support for XChaCha12. This is identical to XChaCha20 except for the number of rounds, which is 12 instead of 20. XChaCha12 is faster than XChaCha20 but has a lower security margin, though still greater than AES-256's since the best known attacks make it through only 7 rounds. See the patch "crypto: chacha - add XChaCha12 support" for more details about why we need XChaCha12 support. Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.