Re: dm-crypt performance

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Milan Broz wrote:

> - Are we sure we are not inroducing some another side channel in disc
> encryption? (Unprivileged user can measure timing here).
> (Perhaps stupid reason but please do not prefer performance to security
> in encryption. Enough we have timing attacks for AES implementations...)

So use serpent - it is implemented without any data-dependent lookup 
tables, so it has no timing attacks.

AES uses data-dependent lookup tables, on CPU with hyperthreding, the 
second thread can observe L1 cache footprint done by the first thread and 
get some information about data being encrypted...

Mikulas

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