Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH/proposal] dm-crypt: add digest-based iv generation mode | From | Christophe Saout <> | Date | Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:23:43 +0100 |
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Am Fr, den 20.02.2004 schrieb Jean-Luc Cooke um 20:09:
> > The plan was to du <cipher>-<iv mode> where <iv mode> can be > > ecb (well, no IV at all), plain (unhashed sector number) or a > > digest (hmac_key sector number). CBC mode is implicit when you > > have some kind of IV generation. Everything else doesn't make > > sense and would be redundant. CFB and CTR are not implemented > > by cryptoloop BTW. > > jlcooke:~/kern/linux-2.6.1/crypto$ grep CTR *.c > cipher.c: case CRYPTO_TFM_MODE_CTR: > grep CFB *.c > cipher.c: case CRYPTO_TFM_MODE_CFB: > > It should be I wrote it...the crypto part anyways.
Do you think I should add support for those two (even though they're not implemented yet)? Does this make sense?
If so, I would do: <cipher>-<cipher mode>[-<iv generator>]
aes-ecb, aes-cbc-sha1, etc...?
This would already break the userspace interface... ;)
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