crypto library · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• M Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• M Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Paths

• F lib/crypto/
• F scripts/crypto/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-15
• Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-06
• Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-06

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-crypto (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5/5] lib/crypto: xwing: Add KUnit tests for X-Wing KEM
  2026-05-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 4/5] lib/crypto: xwing: Add support for X-Wing KEM
  2026-05-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 2/5] lib/crypto: mlkem: Add KUnit tests for ML-KEM
  2026-05-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 3/5] lib/crypto: mlkem: Add FIPS 140-3 tests
  2026-05-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 1/5] lib/crypto: mlkem: Add ML-KEM-768 and ML-KEM-1024 support
  2026-05-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v16 22/38] lib/crypto: Add SHA512 support for pre-boot environments
  2026-05-15 · Ross Philipson <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v16 21/38] lib/crypto: Add SHA1 support for pre-boot environments
  2026-05-15 · Ross Philipson <hidden>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v2] lib/crypto: powerpc/md5: Drop powerpc optimized MD5 code
  2026-05-06 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH] lib/crypto: powerpc/md5: Drop powerpc optimized MD5 code
  2026-05-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH 5.10 01/10] crypto: doc - fix kernel-doc notation in chacha.c and af_alg.c
  2026-04-30 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.18 8/8] lib/crypto: tests: Drop the default to CRYPTO_SELFTESTS
  2026-04-21 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH 6.18 6/8] lib/crypto: tests: Introduce CRYPTO_LIB_ENABLE_ALL_FOR_KUNIT
  2026-04-21 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.18 5/8] lib/crypto: tests: Add a .kunitconfig file
  2026-04-21 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Run typos -w
  2026-04-21 · Link Mauve <hidden>
• COLD49d Re: [PATCH] crypto: lib/mpi - Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl()
  2026-04-14 · Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
• COLD49d LANDED [PATCH] crypto: lib/mpi - Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl()
  2026-04-12 · Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.12, 6.6, 6.1, 5.15, 5.10] lib/crypto: chacha: Zeroize permuted_state before it leaves scope
  2026-04-12 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH] lib/crypto: arm64: Assume a little-endian kernel
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 8/9] lib/crypto: arm64/sha3: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 6/9] lib/crypto: arm64/sha256: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 7/9] lib/crypto: arm64/sha512: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 4/9] lib/crypto: arm64/poly1305: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 5/9] lib/crypto: arm64/sha1: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 2/9] lib/crypto: arm64/chacha: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 1/9] lib/crypto: arm64/aes: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH 3/9] lib/crypto: arm64/gf128hash: Remove obsolete chunking logic
  2026-04-01 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH] lib/crypto: Include <crypto/utils.h> instead of <crypto/algapi.h>
  2026-03-31 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH] lib/crypto: aesgcm: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption
  2026-03-31 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED [PATCH] lib/crypto: aescfb: Don't disable IRQs during AES block encryption
  2026-03-31 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE64d LANDED [PATCH] lib/crypto: tests: Migrate ChaCha20Poly1305 self-test to KUnit
  2026-03-27 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3] lib/crypto: blake2b: Limit frame size workaround to GCC
  2025-11-25 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE126d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH net-next 2/2] lib/crypto: sha1: Remove low-level functions from API
  2026-01-23 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE203d LANDED [PATCH 4/9] lib/crypto: arm64/polyval: Migrate optimized code into library
  2025-11-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE203d LANDED [PATCH 3/9] lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests for POLYVAL
  2025-11-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE203d LANDED [PATCH 5/9] lib/crypto: x86/polyval: Migrate optimized code into library
  2025-11-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE201d [PATCH v8 2/9] crypto: Add ML-DSA/Dilithium verify support
  2025-11-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE201d [PATCH v8 3/9] mldsa: Add a simpler API
  2025-11-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE201d [PATCH v8 4/9] crypto: Add ML-DSA-44 pure rejection test vectors as a kunit test
  2025-11-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE201d [PATCH v8 5/9] crypto: Add ML-DSA-65 pure rejection test vectors as a kunit test
  2025-11-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE201d [PATCH v8 6/9] crypto: Add ML-DSA-87 pure rejection test vectors as a kunit test
  2025-11-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE189d [PATCH v9 3/9] mldsa: Add a simpler API
  2025-11-17 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE189d [PATCH v9 4/9] crypto: Add ML-DSA-44 pure rejection test vectors as a kunit test
  2025-11-17 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>