---
name: "kcapi_akcipher_encrypt"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "libkcapi-dev"
version: "1.4.0-1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kcapi_akcipher_encrypt"
---

# kcapi\_akcipher\_encrypt(3)

encrypt data

## NAME

kcapi\_akcipher\_encrypt - encrypt data

## SYNOPSIS

**ssize\_t kcapi\_akcipher\_encrypt(struct kcapi\_handle \*** *handle***, const uint8\_t \*** *in***, size\_t** *inlen***, uint8\_t \*** *out***, size\_t** *outlen***, int** *access***);**

## ARGUMENTS

*handle*

\[in\] cipher handle

*in*

\[in\] plaintext data buffer

*inlen*

\[in\] length of in buffer

*out*

\[out\] ciphertext data buffer

*outlen*

\[in\] length of out buffer

*access*

\[in\] kernel access type (KCAPI\_ACCESS\_HEURISTIC - use internal heuristic for fastest kernel access; KCAPI\_ACCESS\_VMSPLICE - use vmsplice access; KCAPI\_ACCESS\_SENDMSG - sendmsg access)

## DESCRIPTION

It is perfectly legal to use the same buffer as the plaintext and ciphertext pointers. That would mean that after the encryption operation, the plaintext is overwritten with the ciphertext.

The memory should be aligned at the page boundary using posix\_memalign(sysconf(\_SC\_PAGESIZE)), If it is not aligned at the page boundary, the vmsplice call may not send all data to the kernel.

If the output size is insufficiently large, -EINVAL is returned. The output buffer must be at least as large as the modululs of the uses key.

*return* number of bytes returned by the encryption operation upon success; a negative errno-style error code if an error occurred

## AUTHOR

**Stephan Mueller** \<smueller@chronox.de\>

Author.

## COPYRIGHT