Re: Security levels of different implementations of block crypto

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Jim MacBaine wrote:
> Since then, dm-crypt has obviously caught up.

No it has not. Loop-AES still has stronger and better IV computation, and
multi-key mode that reduces amount of data encrypted with one encryption
key.

Try modifying last byte of 512 byte sector, and observe how many 128 bit
ciphertext blocks change; loop-AES: 32, dm-crypt: 1

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