CONFIG_CRYPTO_THREEFISH: Threefish tweakable block cipher

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_CRYPTO_THREEFISH:

• prompt: Threefish tweakable block cipher
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_X86 || CONFIG_UML_X86 ) && CONFIG_64BIT && CONFIG_CRYPTO
• defined in drivers/staging/skein/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 3.16–3.18

Help text

Threefish cipher algorithm is the tweakable block cipher underneath the Skein family of secure hash algorithms. Skein is one of 5 finalists from the NIST SHA3 competition.

Skein is optimized for modern, 64bit processors and is highly customizable. See:

http://www.skein-hash.info/sites/default/files/skein1.3.pdf

for more information.

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