[PATCH v7 8/9] crypto: arm64/polyval: Add PMULL accelerated implementation of POLYVAL

[Eric Biggers]

On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 07:11:06PM +0000, Nathan Huckleberry wrote:
> Add hardware accelerated version of POLYVAL for ARM64 CPUs with
> Crypto Extensions support.
> 
> This implementation is accelerated using PMULL instructions to perform
> the finite field computations.  For added efficiency, 8 blocks of the
> message are processed simultaneously by precomputing the first 8
> powers of the key.
> 
> Karatsuba multiplication is used instead of Schoolbook multiplication
> because it was found to be slightly faster on ARM64 CPUs.  Montgomery
> reduction must be used instead of Barrett reduction due to the
> difference in modulus between POLYVAL's field and other finite fields.
> 
> More information on POLYVAL can be found in the HCTR2 paper:
> "Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2":
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck at google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig           |   5 +
>  arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile          |   3 +
>  arch/arm64/crypto/polyval-ce-core.S | 361 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/crypto/polyval-ce-glue.c | 193 +++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 562 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/polyval-ce-core.S
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/polyval-ce-glue.c

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>

- Eric