*
* - For block ciphers in CTR mode, this is the counter.
*
- * - For GCM mode, this is either the IV (if the length
- * is 96 bits) or J0 (for other sizes), where J0 is as
- * defined by NIST SP800-38D. Regardless of the IV
- * length, a full 16 bytes needs to be allocated.
- *
* - For CCM mode, the first byte is reserved, and the
* nonce should be written starting at &iv[1] (to allow
* space for the implementation to write in the flags
* of the counter (which must be the same as the block
* length of the cipher).
*
- * - For GCM mode, this is either 12 (for 96-bit IVs)
- * or 16, in which case data points to J0.
- *
* - For CCM mode, this is the length of the nonce,
* which can be in the range 7 to 13 inclusive.
*/
* specified as number of bytes from start of crypto
* operation (rte_crypto_op).
*
- * - For SNOW 3G in UIA2 mode, for ZUC in EIA3 mode and
- * for AES-GMAC, this is the authentication
- * Initialisation Vector (IV) value.
+ * - For SNOW 3G in UIA2 mode, for ZUC in EIA3 mode
+ * this is the authentication Initialisation Vector
+ * (IV) value. For AES-GMAC IV description please refer
+ * to the field `length` in iv struct.
*
* - For KASUMI in F9 mode and other authentication
* algorithms, this field is not used.
* - For KASUMI in F9 mode and other authentication
* algorithms, this field is not used.
*
+ * - For GMAC mode, this is either:
+ * 1) Number greater or equal to one, which means that IV
+ * is used and J0 will be computed internally, a minimum
+ * of 16 bytes must be allocated.
+ * 2) Zero, in which case data points to J0. In this case
+ * 16 bytes of J0 should be passed where J0 is defined
+ * by NIST SP800-38D.
+ *
*/
} iv; /**< Initialisation vector parameters */
* specified as number of bytes from start of crypto
* operation (rte_crypto_op).
*
- * - For GCM mode, this is either the IV (if the length
- * is 96 bits) or J0 (for other sizes), where J0 is as
- * defined by NIST SP800-38D. Regardless of the IV
- * length, a full 16 bytes needs to be allocated.
- *
* - For CCM mode, the first byte is reserved, and the
* nonce should be written starting at &iv[1] (to allow
* space for the implementation to write in the flags
uint16_t length;
/**< Length of valid IV data.
*
- * - For GCM mode, this is either 12 (for 96-bit IVs)
- * or 16, in which case data points to J0.
+ * - For GCM mode, this is either:
+ * 1) Number greater or equal to one, which means that IV
+ * is used and J0 will be computed internally, a minimum
+ * of 16 bytes must be allocated.
+ * 2) Zero, in which case data points to J0. In this case
+ * 16 bytes of J0 should be passed where J0 is defined
+ * by NIST SP800-38D.
*
* - For CCM mode, this is the length of the nonce,
* which can be in the range 7 to 13 inclusive.