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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] crypto: Adiantum support
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On 19/10/2018 21:04, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 05:58:35PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> Hello Eric,
>>
>>> As before, some of these patches conflict with the new "Zinc" crypto
>>> library. But I don't know when Zinc will be merged, so for now I've
>>> continued to base this patchset on the current 'cryptodev'.
>>
>> I'd appreciate it if you waited to merge this until you can rebase it
>> on top of Zinc. In fact, if you already want to build it on top of
>> Zinc, I'm happy to work with you on that in a shared repo or similar.
>> We can also hash out the details of that in person in Vancouver in a
>> few weeks. I think pushing this in before will create undesirable
>> churn for both of us.
>>
>
> I won't be at Plumbers, sorry! For if/when it's needed, I'll start a version of
> this based on Zinc. The basic requirements are that we need (1) xchacha12 and
> xchacha20 available as 'skciphers' in the crypto API, and (2) the poly1305_core
> functions (see patch 08/12). In principle, these can be implemented in Zinc.
> The Adiantum template and all the NHPoly1305 stuff will be the same either way.
> (Unless you'll want one or both of those moved to Zinc too. To be honest, even
> after your explanations I still don't have a clear idea of what is supposed to
> go in Zinc and what isn't...)
>
> However, for now I'm hesitant to completely abandon the current approach and bet
> the farm on Zinc. Zinc has a large scope and various controversies that haven't
> yet been fully resolved to everyone's satisfaction, including unclear licenses
> on some of the essential assembly files. It's not appropriate to grind kernel
> crypto development to grind a halt while everyone waits for Zinc.
>
> So if Zinc is ready, then it makes sense for it to go first;
> otherwise, it doesn't. It's not yet clear which is the case.

Does it mean, that if Adiantum is based on Zinc, it can be no longer used
for FDE (dm-crypt)? IOW only file-based encryption is possible?

Adiantum (as in your current git branches on kernel.org) can be used for dm-crypt
without any changes (yes, I played with it :) and with some easy tricks directly
through cryptsetup/LUKS as well.

I think we should have this as an alternative to length-preserving wide-block
cipher modes for FDE.

Milan

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