/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * AES-GCM authenticated encryption and decryption * * Copyright 2026 Google LLC */ #ifndef _CRYPTO_AES_GCM_H #define _CRYPTO_AES_GCM_H #include #include #include /** * struct aes_gcm_key - A key prepared for AES-GCM encryption and decryption */ struct aes_gcm_key { /* private: */ struct aes_enckey aes; struct ghash_key ghash; size_t authtag_len; /* Length of authentication tags in bytes */ }; /** * struct aes_gcm_ctx - Context for incrementally en/decrypting a message */ struct aes_gcm_ctx { /* private: */ /* * Pointer to the key, which is assumed to live at least as long as this * struct. */ const struct aes_gcm_key *key; /* The current GHASH context */ struct ghash_ctx ghash; /* * The current counter. This can be viewed as either a 128-bit big * endian counter, or as a 96-bit nonce followed by a 32-bit big endian * counter; it doesn't matter, since the last 32-bit word starts at 1, * and AES-GCM is undefined for messages that would overflow that part. * In practice this means that code optimized for AES-GCM can just * increment the last 32-bit word (wrapping at 2^32), but when needed it * can still call AES-CTR code that does a 128-bit increment. * * 'long' alignment is for crypto_xor() to work more efficiently. */ union { u8 ctr[AES_BLOCK_SIZE]; __be32 ctr32[AES_BLOCK_SIZE / 4]; } __aligned(__alignof__(long)); /* Buffered keystream for partial block updates */ u8 keystream[AES_BLOCK_SIZE] __aligned(__alignof__(long)); /* Encrypted counter of 1. This gets XOR'ed with the tag at the end. */ u8 j0_enc[AES_BLOCK_SIZE] __aligned(__alignof__(long)); /* Number of associated data bytes processed so far */ u64 ad_len; /* Number of en/decrypted bytes processed so far */ u64 data_len; }; /** * aes_gcm_preparekey() - Prepare a key for AES-GCM encryption and decryption * @key: (output) The key structure to initialize * @in_key: The raw AES-GCM key * @key_len: Length of the raw key in bytes: 16, 24, or 32 * @authtag_len: Length of the authentication tag in bytes: * 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16. 16 is recommended. * * Users should use memzero_explicit() to zeroize the key struct at the end of * its lifetime. (But if this function fails, zeroization is unnecessary.) * * Context: Any context. * Return: * * 0 on success * * -EINVAL if either of the lengths is invalid */ int __must_check aes_gcm_preparekey(struct aes_gcm_key *key, const u8 *in_key, size_t key_len, size_t authtag_len); /** * aes_gcm_encrypt() - Encrypt a message with AES-GCM * @dst: The destination ciphertext data. Can be in-place or out-of-place. * For other overlaps the behavior is unspecified. * @src: The source plaintext data * @data_len: Length of plaintext in bytes (and ciphertext excluding the tag): * at most 2^36 - 32 * @authtag: The output authentication tag. Length is the authtag_len that was * passed to aes_gcm_preparekey(). Usually protocols using AES-GCM * put the tag at the end of the ciphertext, in which case this should * be set to @dst + @data_len and @dst must have room for the tag. * @ad: The associated data * @ad_len: Length of associated data in bytes: at most 2^61 - 1 * @nonce: The 12-byte nonce. All (key, nonce) pairs used MUST be distinct. * @key: The key, already prepared using aes_gcm_preparekey() * * For AES-GMAC (i.e., AES-GCM without any data en/decrypted), use dst=NULL, * src=NULL, and data_len=0 to generate the AES-GMAC value. * * Context: Any context. */ void aes_gcm_encrypt(u8 *dst, const u8 *src, size_t data_len, u8 *authtag, const u8 *ad, size_t ad_len, const u8 nonce[at_least 12], const struct aes_gcm_key *key); /** * aes_gcm_decrypt() - Decrypt a message with AES-GCM * @dst: The destination plaintext data. Can be in-place or out-of-place. * For other overlaps the behavior is unspecified. * @src: The source ciphertext data * @data_len: Length of plaintext in bytes (and ciphertext excluding the tag): * at most 2^36 - 32 * @authtag: The stored authentication tag. Length is the authtag_len that was * passed to aes_gcm_preparekey(). Usually protocols using AES-GCM * put the tag at the end of the ciphertext, in which case this should * be set to @src + @data_len and @src must have room for the tag. * @ad: The associated data * @ad_len: Length of associated data in bytes: at most 2^61 - 1 * @nonce: The 12-byte nonce * @key: The key, already prepared using aes_gcm_preparekey() * * For AES-GMAC (i.e., AES-GCM without any data en/decrypted), use dst=NULL, * src=NULL, and data_len=0 to verify the AES-GMAC value. * * Context: Any context. * Return: * * 0 on success. This is the only case where any decrypted or associated data * can be used. * * -EBADMSG if the message is inauthentic */ int __must_check aes_gcm_decrypt(u8 *dst, const u8 *src, size_t data_len, const u8 *authtag, const u8 *ad, size_t ad_len, const u8 nonce[at_least 12], const struct aes_gcm_key *key); /** * aes_gcm_init() - Initialize context for incremental AES-GCM encryption or * decryption, or for AES-GMAC computation * @ctx: The context to initialize * @nonce: The 12-byte nonce. All (key, nonce) pairs used for encryption or MAC * generation MUST be distinct. * @key: The key, already prepared using aes_gcm_preparekey(). Note that a * pointer to the key is saved in the context, so the key must live at * least as long as the context. * * The context should be zeroized at the end of its lifetime. Normally that * happens in aes_gcm_encrypt_final() or aes_gcm_decrypt_final(), but callers * that abandon a context without finalizing it should explicitly zeroize it. * * IMPORTANT: Callers that are decrypting data or computing a GMAC value for * verification MUST NOT assume that any decrypted or associated data is * authentic until the authentication tag has been verified. This incremental * API is provided solely to support callers that can't efficiently use the * one-shot functions due to using a nonlinear data layout. * * For incremental AES-GCM encryption, use: * * 1. aes_gcm_init() * 2. aes_gcm_auth_update() (any number of times) * 3. aes_gcm_encrypt_update() (any number of times) * 4. aes_gcm_encrypt_final() * * For incremental AES-GCM decryption, use: * * 1. aes_gcm_init() * 2. aes_gcm_auth_update() (any number of times) * 3. aes_gcm_decrypt_update() (any number of times) * 4. aes_gcm_decrypt_final() * * AES-GMAC is just AES-GCM with zero bytes en/decrypted. For incremental * AES-GMAC computation, use: * * 1. aes_gcm_init() * 2. aes_gcm_auth_update() (any number of times) * 3. aes_gcm_encrypt_final() to return the computed tag to the caller, or * aes_gcm_decrypt_final() to directly verify the computed tag * * Context: Any context. */ void aes_gcm_init(struct aes_gcm_ctx *ctx, const u8 nonce[at_least 12], const struct aes_gcm_key *key); /** * aes_gcm_auth_update() - Incrementally process AES-GCM associated data * @ctx: An AES-GCM context * @ad: The associated data * @len: Number of bytes provided. The caller must ensure that the total * associated data length doesn't exceed GCM's limit of 2^61 - 1. * * IMPORTANT: Callers MUST NOT assume that any decrypted or associated data is * authentic until the authentication tag has been verified. * * Context: Any context. */ void aes_gcm_auth_update(struct aes_gcm_ctx *ctx, const u8 *ad, size_t len); /** * aes_gcm_encrypt_update() - Incrementally encrypt data with AES-GCM * @ctx: An AES-GCM context * @dst: The destination buffer. Can be in-place or out-of-place. For other * overlaps the behavior is unspecified. * @src: The source plaintext data * @len: Number of bytes to encrypt. The caller must ensure that the total * number of bytes encrypted doesn't exceed GCM's limit of 2^36 - 32. * * This can be called only after all associated data has been processed. * * Context: Any context. */ void aes_gcm_encrypt_update(struct aes_gcm_ctx *ctx, u8 *dst, const u8 *src, size_t len); /** * aes_gcm_decrypt_update() - Incrementally decrypt data with AES-GCM * @ctx: An AES-GCM context * @dst: The destination buffer. Can be in-place or out-of-place. For other * overlaps the behavior is unspecified. * @src: The source ciphertext data (not including auth tag) * @len: Number of bytes to decrypt. The caller must ensure that the total * number of bytes decrypted doesn't exceed GCM's limit of 2^36 - 32. * * This can be called only after all associated data has been processed. * * IMPORTANT: Callers MUST NOT assume that any decrypted or associated data is * authentic until the authentication tag has been verified. * * Context: Any context. */ void aes_gcm_decrypt_update(struct aes_gcm_ctx *ctx, u8 *dst, const u8 *src, size_t len); /** * aes_gcm_encrypt_final() - Finish encrypting a message with AES-GCM * @ctx: An AES-GCM context * @authtag: The output authentication tag. Length is the authtag_len that was * passed to aes_gcm_preparekey(). * * This also zeroizes @ctx, so the caller doesn't need to do it. * * Context: Any context. */ void aes_gcm_encrypt_final(struct aes_gcm_ctx *ctx, u8 *authtag); /** * aes_gcm_decrypt_final() - Finish decrypting a message with AES-GCM * @ctx: An AES-GCM context * @authtag: The stored authentication tag. Length is the authtag_len that was * passed to aes_gcm_preparekey(). * * This also zeroizes @ctx, so the caller doesn't need to do it. * * Context: Any context. * Return: * * 0 on success. This is the only case where any decrypted or associated data * can be used. * * -EBADMSG if the message is inauthentic */ int __must_check aes_gcm_decrypt_final(struct aes_gcm_ctx *ctx, const u8 *authtag); #endif /* _CRYPTO_AES_GCM_H */