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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> | 2026-07-08 22:27:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> | 2026-07-09 11:06:05 -0400 |
| commit | 9665e22579ee4324a14e035b5b29d3d1fdc929e2 (patch) | |
| tree | de8ef8579bef2151fbf7c56f2b166269911be63c /Documentation/crypto | |
| parent | 8008d6b59a659982b9f10916bb8712bf93bc7c46 (diff) | |
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lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence
Make it clear that lib/crypto/ is a kernel-internal library. It's easy
for people to come across this page, especially the HTML version online,
without that context.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709022747.44635-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst index a1557d45b0e5..0733e603d229 100644 --- a/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst +++ b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ Crypto library ============== -``lib/crypto/`` provides faster and easier access to cryptographic algorithms -than the traditional crypto API. +The Linux kernel's crypto library (``lib/crypto/``) provides kernel-internal +users of cryptographic algorithms with faster and easier access to those +algorithms than the traditional kernel crypto API. Each cryptographic algorithm is supported via a set of dedicated functions. "Crypto agility", where needed, is left to calling code. |