On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:28:09AM +0000, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > It seems to me the "cut/paste" attack won't work, as different disk blocks > are encrypted with different IV values - the IV is derived from the > block number - so the same ciphertext encrypts > to different plaintext if you move it to a different block. > > Am I missing something here? the cut/paste is independant of the IV. you can read the bellovin paper (find the ref at the end of my text) about it which give a longer explaination - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
