bool "Support for AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor"
depends on ((X86 && PCI) || (ARM64 && (OF_ADDRESS || ACPI))) && HAS_IOMEM
help
- The AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor provides hardware support
+ The AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor provides hardware offload support
for encryption, hashing and related operations.
if CRYPTO_DEV_CCP
select HW_RANDOM
help
Provides the interface to use the AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor
- which can be used to accelerate or offload encryption operations
- such as SHA, AES and more. If you choose 'M' here, this module
- will be called ccp.
+ which can be used to offload encryption operations such as SHA,
+ AES and more. If you choose 'M' here, this module will be called
+ ccp.
config CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_CRYPTO
- tristate "Encryption and hashing acceleration support"
+ tristate "Encryption and hashing offload support"
depends on CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD
default m
select CRYPTO_HASH
select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
help
Support for using the cryptographic API with the AMD Cryptographic
- Coprocessor. This module supports acceleration and offload of SHA
- and AES algorithms. If you choose 'M' here, this module will be
- called ccp_crypto.
+ Coprocessor. This module supports offload of SHA and AES algorithms.
+ If you choose 'M' here, this module will be called ccp_crypto.