On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:57:05PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > >As to blacklisting algorithms not suitable for disk encryption, > >that is up to the dm-crypt maintainers to decide. > > Herbert, what happend to the "check for streamcipher" idea you had? Is > it gone? On the other hand it wouldn't be probably that bad to have a Well again whether that should be done is up to the dm-crypt maintainers. > seprate interface to grab a block cipher _or_ a stream cipher. So Just because something isn't a stream cipher doesn't mean that it is safe for disk encryption. People simply shouldn't be using random algorithms for disk encryption. > I can't imaging how you want to fix arc4 that it will work in dm-crypt. I thought I've explained this before. Just turn it into a blkcipher and add IV. > The algorithm relies more or less on the fact that it envolves itself > during processing of data. This is no different to any stream cipher. Cheers, -- 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
