STRUCT CRYPTO_KEYS(9)

💖 struct crypto_keys(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ you're looking at struct crypto_keys(9) and honestly? she's a little icon. this is the manual page for the crypto keys struct, and we're gonna go through it together, no cap 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

struct crypto_keys — Crypto keys 🔑

that's it, that's the vibe. she holds keys. crypto ones. periodt 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the whole shape of her, literally copy-paste exact, don't come for me:

struct crypto_keys {
    union {
      u8 key[AES_MAX_KEY_SIZE];
      u8 key1[AES_MAX_KEY_SIZE];
    } u;
    u8 iv[AES_BLOCK_SIZE];
 };

so there's an anonymous-ish union named u holding two arrays — key and key1, both u8 and both sized AES_MAX_KEY_SIZE — and then a separate u8 iv[AES_BLOCK_SIZE]. that's the whole struct. she's compact. she's efficient. she's giving main character energy 👑

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🎀 Members 🎀

• iv — Encryption IV or Tweak for AES-XTS 🌈 like, that's the member the page calls out, and it's doing double duty depending on the mode — IV vibes or XTS tweak vibes. iykyk 🧚

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

okay bestie, this is the friend group 💖 all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_req.h:

• struct gphdr(9)
• union se_req_ctrl(9)
• struct se_crypto_request(9)
• struct auth_keys(9)
• struct flexi_crypto_context(9)
• struct nitrox_aead_rctx(9)
• struct nitrox_rfc4106_rctx(9)
• union pkt_instr_hdr(9)
• union pkt_hdr(9)
• union slc_store_info(9)
• struct nps_pkt_instr(9)
• struct aqmq_command_s(9)
• struct ctx_hdr(9)
• struct nitrox_softreq(9)
• create_single_sg(9)
• create_multi_sg(9)

like, she runs with a whole squad 😭 go read them too, fr fr 🍓

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💀 reminder bestie: this page is from the ./drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox corner of the kernel, so if you're poking around there, that's your home base 🏠

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and that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 mwah 💋 — sourced from ./drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox, dated October 2026, and yeah she's still out here being struct crypto_keys(9) 🔥🦋 see you in the next man page, bestie 🫶✨