* Herbert Xu | 2010-02-10 07:45:19 [+1100]: >> 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. Milan liked that afaik. >> 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. I beg your pardon. I probably mixed things up. >> 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. Sure. So we fix arc4 and don't play mother . Okay I will into this :) > >Cheers, Sebastian -- 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
