On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 05:03:42PM +0200, Rik Snel wrote: > XTS currently considered to be the successor of the LRW mode by the IEEE1619 > workgroup. LRW was discarded, because it was not secure if the encyption key > itself is encrypted with LRW. > > XTS does not have this problem. The implementation is pretty straightforward, > a new function was added to gf128mul to handle GF(128) elements in ble format. > Four testvectors from the specification > http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1619/email/pdf00086.pdf > were added, and they verify on my system. > > Signed-off-by: Rik Snel <rsnel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Nice work. Thanks Rik! -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
