diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
index e71bdbd..959109b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
@@ -187,6 +187,22 @@ The following is an overview of some key Vhost API functions:
 
   Receives (dequeues) ``count`` packets from guest, and stored them at ``pkts``.
 
+* ``rte_vhost_crypto_create(vid, cryptodev_id, sess_mempool, socket_id)``
+
+  As an extension of new_device(), this function adds virtio-crypto workload
+  acceleration capability to the device. All crypto workload is processed by
+  DPDK cryptodev with the device ID of ``cryptodev_id``.
+
+* ``rte_vhost_crypto_fetch_requests(vid, queue_id, ops, nb_ops)``
+
+  Receives (dequeues) ``nb_ops`` virtio-crypto requests from guest, parses
+  them to DPDK Crypto Operations, and fills the ``ops`` with parsing results.
+
+* ``rte_vhost_crypto_finalize_requests(queue_id, ops, nb_ops)``
+
+  After the ``ops`` are dequeued from Cryptodev, finalizes the jobs and
+  notifies the guest(s).
+
 Vhost-user Implementations
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
index 24b67bb..6965448 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Added virtio-crypto support to vhost library.**
+
+  The virtio-crypto specification support is added to librte_vhost library
+  which enables the user to accelerate the guests' virtio-crypto workloads
+  with DPDK cryptodev library.
+
+  A simple vhost_crypto sample application is also added.
 
 API Changes
 -----------
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst
index db68ef7..9792d66 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Sample Applications User Guides
     vmdq_dcb_forwarding
     vhost
     vhost_scsi
+    vhost_crypto
     netmap_compatibility
     ip_pipeline
     test_pipeline
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost_crypto.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost_crypto.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3574efa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost_crypto.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+
+..  BSD LICENSE
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+
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+
+
+Vhost_Crypto Sample Application
+===============================
+
+The vhost_crypto sample application implemented a simple Crypto device,
+which used as the  backend of Qemu vhost-user-crypto device. Similar with
+vhost-user-net and vhost-user-scsi device, the sample application used
+domain socket to communicate with Qemu, and the virtio ring was processed
+by vhost_crypto sample application.
+
+Testing steps
+-------------
+
+This section shows the steps how to start a VM with the crypto device as
+fast data path for critical application.
+
+Compiling the Application
+-------------------------
+
+To compile the sample application see :doc:`compiling`.
+
+The application is located in the ``examples`` sub-directory.
+
+You will also need to build DPDK both on the host and inside the guest
+
+Start the vhost_crypto example
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    ./vhost_crypto [EAL options] -- [--socket-file PATH]
+    [--cryptodev-mask MASK]
+
+where,
+
+* socket-file PATH: the path of UNIX socket file to be created
+
+* cryptodev-mask MASK: the mask to enable or disable certain cryptodevs
+
+The application requires that crypto devices capable of performing
+the specified crypto operation are available on application initialization.
+This means that HW crypto device/s must be bound to a DPDK driver or
+a SW crypto device/s (virtual crypto PMD) must be created (using --vdev).
+
+.. _vhost_crypto_app_run_vm:
+
+Start the VM
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm \
+        -m $mem -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=$mem,\
+        mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem \
+        -drive file=os.img,if=none,id=disk \
+        -device ide-hd,drive=disk,bootindex=0 \
+        -chardev socket,id={chardev_id},path={PATH} \
+        -object cryptodev-vhost-user,id={obj_id},chardev={chardev_id} \
+        -device virtio-crypto-pci,id={dev_id},cryptodev={obj_id} \
+        ...
+
+.. note::
+    You must check whether your Qemu can support "vhost-user-crypto" or not.
+
