Poly1305 authenticator algorithm (x86_64/SSE2/AVX2)

modulename: poly1305-x86_64.ko

configname: CONFIG_CRYPTO_POLY1305_X86_64

Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>Cryptographic API
└─>Poly1305 authenticator algorithm (x86_64/SSE2/AVX2)
In linux kernel since version 3.10 (release Date: 2013-06-30)  
Poly1305 authenticator algorithm, RFC7539.

Poly1305 is an authenticator algorithm designed by Daniel J. Bernstein.
It is used for the ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD, specified in RFC7539 for use
in IETF protocols. This is the x86_64 assembler implementation using SIMD
instructions.

source code: