Modes Library (Nylon)

Project Nylon

Today there are a number of implementations in the Crypto Framework algorithm code of algorithm modes (or mechanisms).  In the case of AES, DES, and Blowfish each have there own implementation of CBC and ECB.  Additionally hardware providers like n2cp has to provide their own modes as well.  This becomes very inefficient when trying to implement a new mechanisms to a number of providers.  For example, it would be nice to add one version of CCM that could be used by the aes kernel module and n2cp hardware module.

This projects goal is to strip the modes from the algorithm code and make a generic implementation that can be used by all algorithms and providers..