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30 SNOW 3G Crypto Poll Mode Driver
31 ===============================
33 The SNOW 3G PMD (**librte_pmd_snow3g**) provides poll mode crypto driver
34 support for utilizing Intel Libsso library, which implements F8 and F9 functions
35 for SNOW 3G UEA2 cipher and UIA2 hash algorithms.
40 SNOW 3G PMD has support for:
44 * RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_SNOW3G_UEA2
46 Authentication algorithm:
48 * RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SNOW3G_UIA2
53 * Chained mbufs are not supported.
54 * SNOW 3G (UIA2) supported only if hash offset field is byte-aligned.
55 * In-place bit-level operations for SNOW 3G (UEA2) are not supported
56 (if length and/or offset of data to be ciphered is not byte-aligned).
61 To build DPDK with the SNOW3G_PMD the user is required to download
62 the export controlled ``libsso_snow3g`` library, by requesting it from
63 `<https://networkbuilders.intel.com/network-technologies/dpdk>`_.
64 Once approval has been granted, the user needs to log in
65 `<https://networkbuilders.intel.com/dpdklogin>`_
66 and click on "Snow3G Bit Stream crypto library" link, to download the library.
67 After downloading the library, the user needs to unpack and compile it
68 on their system before building DPDK::
72 **Note**: When encrypting with SNOW3G UEA2, by default the library
73 encrypts blocks of 4 bytes, regardless the number of bytes to
74 be encrypted provided (which leads to a possible buffer overflow).
75 To avoid this situation, it is necessary not to pass
76 3GPP_SAFE_BUFFERS as a compilation flag.
77 For this, in the Makefile of the library, make sure that this flag
80 #EXTRA_CFLAGS += -D_3GPP_SAFE_BUFFERS
86 In order to enable this virtual crypto PMD, user must:
88 * Export the environmental variable LIBSSO_SNOW3G_PATH with the path where
89 the library was extracted (snow3g folder).
91 * Build the LIBSSO_SNOW3G library (explained in Installation section).
93 * Set CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_SNOW3G=y in config/common_base.
95 To use the PMD in an application, user must:
97 * Call rte_vdev_init("crypto_snow3g") within the application.
99 * Use --vdev="crypto_snow3g" in the EAL options, which will call rte_vdev_init() internally.
101 The following parameters (all optional) can be provided in the previous two calls:
103 * socket_id: Specify the socket where the memory for the device is going to be allocated
104 (by default, socket_id will be the socket where the core that is creating the PMD is running on).
106 * max_nb_queue_pairs: Specify the maximum number of queue pairs in the device (8 by default).
108 * max_nb_sessions: Specify the maximum number of sessions that can be created (2048 by default).
112 .. code-block:: console
114 ./l2fwd-crypto -l 1 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_snow3g,socket_id=0,max_nb_sessions=128" \
115 -- -p 1 --cdev SW --chain CIPHER_ONLY --cipher_algo "snow3g-uea2"