tipc_crypto_key_init(9)

✨ tipc_crypto_key_init(9) ✨

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for tipc_crypto_key_init(9) — yes, the manual name is literally in the room with us 💅.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

tipc_crypto_key_init — initiate a new user / AEAD key ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int tipc_crypto_key_init (struct tipc_crypto *c , struct tipc_aead_key *ukey , u8 mode , bool master_key );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• c — the TIPC crypto this new key gets attached to, iykyk.
• ukey — the user key, the actual key material bestie.
• mode — the key mode, and it's giving either CLUSTER_KEY or PER_NODE_KEY.
• master_key — tells everyone this is a cluster master key, no cap.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

A new TIPC AEAD key will be allocated and initiated with the specified user key, then attached to the TIPC crypto. That's the whole glow-up: allocate, initiate, attach, slay.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

If it ate, you get the new key id in case of success. If not? literally < 0 😭.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./net/tipc/crypto.c plus the whole iconic friend group:

• struct tipc_tfm(9)
• struct tipc_aead(9)
• struct tipc_crypto_stats(9)
• struct tipc_crypto(9)
• tipc_aead_key_validate(9)
• tipc_aead_key_generate(9)
• tipc_aead_free(9)
• tipc_aead_tfm_next(9)
• tipc_aead_init(9)
• tipc_aead_clone(9)
• tipc_aead_mem_alloc(9)
• tipc_aead_encrypt(9)
• tipc_aead_decrypt(9)
• tipc_ehdr_validate(9)
• tipc_ehdr_build(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_attach(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_try_align(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_pick_tx(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_synch(9)
• tipc_crypto_xmit(9)
• tipc_crypto_rcv(9)
• tipc_crypto_msg_rcv(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_distr(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_xmit(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_rcv(9)
• tipc_crypto_work_rx(9)
• tipc_crypto_rekeying_sched(9)
• tipc_crypto_work_tx(9)

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