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diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst index a1557d45b0e5..0733e603d229 100644 --- a/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst +++ b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ Crypto library ============== -``lib/crypto/`` provides faster and easier access to cryptographic algorithms -than the traditional crypto API. +The Linux kernel's crypto library (``lib/crypto/``) provides kernel-internal +users of cryptographic algorithms with faster and easier access to those +algorithms than the traditional kernel crypto API. Each cryptographic algorithm is supported via a set of dedicated functions. "Crypto agility", where needed, is left to calling code. |