diff --git a/lib/chacha20.c b/lib/chacha20.c
index d907fec..6a484e1 100644
--- a/lib/chacha20.c
+++ b/lib/chacha20.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * ChaCha20 256-bit cipher algorithm, RFC7539
+ * The "hash function" used as the core of the ChaCha20 stream cipher (RFC7539)
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2015 Martin Willi
  *
@@ -16,14 +16,10 @@
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 #include <crypto/chacha20.h>
 
-void chacha20_block(u32 *state, u8 *stream)
+static void chacha20_permute(u32 *x)
 {
-	u32 x[16];
 	int i;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(x); i++)
-		x[i] = state[i];
-
 	for (i = 0; i < 20; i += 2) {
 		x[0]  += x[4];    x[12] = rol32(x[12] ^ x[0],  16);
 		x[1]  += x[5];    x[13] = rol32(x[13] ^ x[1],  16);
@@ -65,6 +61,25 @@
 		x[8]  += x[13];   x[7]  = rol32(x[7]  ^ x[8],   7);
 		x[9]  += x[14];   x[4]  = rol32(x[4]  ^ x[9],   7);
 	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * chacha20_block - generate one keystream block and increment block counter
+ * @state: input state matrix (16 32-bit words)
+ * @stream: output keystream block (64 bytes)
+ *
+ * This is the ChaCha20 core, a function from 64-byte strings to 64-byte
+ * strings.  The caller has already converted the endianness of the input.  This
+ * function also handles incrementing the block counter in the input matrix.
+ */
+void chacha20_block(u32 *state, u8 *stream)
+{
+	u32 x[16];
+	int i;
+
+	memcpy(x, state, 64);
+
+	chacha20_permute(x);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(x); i++)
 		put_unaligned_le32(x[i] + state[i], &stream[i * sizeof(u32)]);
@@ -72,3 +87,26 @@
 	state[12]++;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(chacha20_block);
+
+/**
+ * hchacha20_block - abbreviated ChaCha20 core, for XChaCha20
+ * @in: input state matrix (16 32-bit words)
+ * @out: output (8 32-bit words)
+ *
+ * HChaCha20 is the ChaCha equivalent of HSalsa20 and is an intermediate step
+ * towards XChaCha20 (see https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/xsalsa-20081128.pdf).
+ * HChaCha20 skips the final addition of the initial state, and outputs only
+ * certain words of the state.  It should not be used for streaming directly.
+ */
+void hchacha20_block(const u32 *in, u32 *out)
+{
+	u32 x[16];
+
+	memcpy(x, in, 64);
+
+	chacha20_permute(x);
+
+	memcpy(&out[0], &x[0], 16);
+	memcpy(&out[4], &x[12], 16);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(hchacha20_block);