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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Florian Philipp |
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<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: |
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> One last question for everyone who has read this rather long mail (thank |
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> you, btw): What exactly is benbi in aes-lrw-benbi:sha256 and what should |
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> I choose for XTS? The kernel description states plain but essiv and |
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> benbi work as well. |
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benbi is an IV generation algorithm. If you look at the dm-crypt |
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sources [1], benbi stands for "big-endian 'narrow block'-count" (not |
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sure where they got the `i' from...). There's also one called bewbi, |
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which I thought was entertaining. |
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Sincerely, |
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Mansour Moufid |
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[1] http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c#L110 |
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