cryptotest

Tools for testing kernel ciphers and hash algorithm

Testing and benching kernel ciphers and hash could be a difficult task. So there is a set of tools for helping doing that.

Three way to use kernel crypto API are used:

installation

autoreconf --install

./configure

make

The af_alg_test tool permit to test AES and MD5/SHA1. Two mode are proposed, test and bench.

The test mode will try to hash/cipher data from 16 to 2097152 bytes and check the result with the same operation done by the openssl lib.
The bench mode will simply bench x times some operations.

You need to have the following options enabled.

af_alg_test [md5|sha1|aes] [check|number_of_request]

The cryptodev_test tool permit to test AES. Two mode are proposed, test and bench.

The test mode will try to cipher data from 16 to 2097152 bytes and check the result with the same operation done by the openssl lib.
The bench mode will simply bench x times some operations.

You need to have the cryptodev module

cryptodev_test test aes number_of_request

cryptodev_test bench aes number_of_request

The kernel module named cryptotest, check cbc(aes), md5, sha1 using the crypto API.

make
insmod cryptotest.ko

The lukstest tool goal is to test if cipher/decipher works via cryptsetup/dm-crupt.

You need to have the cryptsetup tool installed.

./lukstest