HCTR2 is a tweakable, length-preserving encryption mode. It has the same security guarantees as Adiantum, but is intended for use on CPUs with dedicated crypto instructions. It fixes a known weakness with filename encryption: when two filenames in the same directory share a prefix of >= 16 bytes, with CTS-CBC their encrypted filenames share a common substring, leaking information. HCTR2 does not have this problem. More information on HCTR2 can be found here: Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++----- fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h | 2 +- fs/crypto/keysetup.c | 7 +++++++ fs/crypto/policy.c | 4 ++++ include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h | 3 ++- tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h | 3 ++- 6 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index 4d5d50dca65c..09915086abd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ Currently, the following pairs of encryption modes are supported: - AES-256-XTS for contents and AES-256-CTS-CBC for filenames - AES-128-CBC for contents and AES-128-CTS-CBC for filenames - Adiantum for both contents and filenames +- AES-256-XTS for contents and AES-256-HCTR2 for filenames If unsure, you should use the (AES-256-XTS, AES-256-CTS-CBC) pair. @@ -357,6 +358,14 @@ To use Adiantum, CONFIG_CRYPTO_ADIANTUM must be enabled. Also, fast implementations of ChaCha and NHPoly1305 should be enabled, e.g. CONFIG_CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON and CONFIG_CRYPTO_NHPOLY1305_NEON for ARM. +AES-256-HCTR2 is another true wide-block encryption mode. It has the same +security guarantees as Adiantum, but is intended for use on CPUs with dedicated +crypto instructions. See the paper "Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2" +(https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf) for more details. To use HCTR2, +CONFIG_CRYPTO_HCTR2 must be enabled. Also, fast implementations of XCTR and +POLYVAL should be enabled, e.g. CRYPTO_POLYVAL_ARM64_CE and +CRYPTO_AES_ARM64_CE_BLK for ARM64. + New encryption modes can be added relatively easily, without changes to individual filesystems. However, authenticated encryption (AE) modes are not currently supported because of the difficulty of dealing @@ -404,11 +413,11 @@ alternatively has the file's nonce (for `DIRECT_KEY policies`_) or inode number (for `IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies`_) included in the IVs. Thus, IV reuse is limited to within a single directory. -With CTS-CBC, the IV reuse means that when the plaintext filenames -share a common prefix at least as long as the cipher block size (16 -bytes for AES), the corresponding encrypted filenames will also share -a common prefix. This is undesirable. Adiantum does not have this -weakness, as it is a wide-block encryption mode. +With CTS-CBC, the IV reuse means that when the plaintext filenames share a +common prefix at least as long as the cipher block size (16 bytes for AES), the +corresponding encrypted filenames will also share a common prefix. This is +undesirable. Adiantum and HCTR2 do not have this weakness, as they are +wide-block encryption modes. All supported filenames encryption modes accept any plaintext length >= 16 bytes; cipher block alignment is not required. However, diff --git a/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h b/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h index 5b0a9e6478b5..d8617d01f7bd 100644 --- a/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h +++ b/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #define FSCRYPT_CONTEXT_V2 2 /* Keep this in sync with include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h */ -#define FSCRYPT_MODE_MAX FSCRYPT_MODE_ADIANTUM +#define FSCRYPT_MODE_MAX FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_256_HCTR2 struct fscrypt_context_v1 { u8 version; /* FSCRYPT_CONTEXT_V1 */ diff --git a/fs/crypto/keysetup.c b/fs/crypto/keysetup.c index eede186b04ce..ae24b581d3d7 100644 --- a/fs/crypto/keysetup.c +++ b/fs/crypto/keysetup.c @@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ struct fscrypt_mode fscrypt_modes[] = { .ivsize = 32, .blk_crypto_mode = BLK_ENCRYPTION_MODE_ADIANTUM, }, + [FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_256_HCTR2] = { + .friendly_name = "HCTR2", + .cipher_str = "hctr2(aes)", + .keysize = 32, + .security_strength = 32, + .ivsize = 32, + }, }; static DEFINE_MUTEX(fscrypt_mode_key_setup_mutex); diff --git a/fs/crypto/policy.c b/fs/crypto/policy.c index ed3d623724cd..fa8bdb8c76b7 100644 --- a/fs/crypto/policy.c +++ b/fs/crypto/policy.c @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ static bool fscrypt_valid_enc_modes(u32 contents_mode, u32 filenames_mode) filenames_mode == FSCRYPT_MODE_ADIANTUM) return true; + if (contents_mode == FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_256_XTS && + filenames_mode == FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_256_HCTR2) + return true; + return false; } diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h b/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h index 9f4428be3e36..a756b29afcc2 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ #define FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_128_CBC 5 #define FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_128_CTS 6 #define FSCRYPT_MODE_ADIANTUM 9 -/* If adding a mode number > 9, update FSCRYPT_MODE_MAX in fscrypt_private.h */ +#define FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_256_HCTR2 10 +/* If adding a mode number > 10, update FSCRYPT_MODE_MAX in fscrypt_private.h */ /* * Legacy policy version; ad-hoc KDF and no key verification. diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h index 9f4428be3e36..a756b29afcc2 100644 --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/fscrypt.h @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ #define FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_128_CBC 5 #define FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_128_CTS 6 #define FSCRYPT_MODE_ADIANTUM 9 -/* If adding a mode number > 9, update FSCRYPT_MODE_MAX in fscrypt_private.h */ +#define FSCRYPT_MODE_AES_256_HCTR2 10 +/* If adding a mode number > 10, update FSCRYPT_MODE_MAX in fscrypt_private.h */ /* * Legacy policy version; ad-hoc KDF and no key verification. -- 2.35.1.723.g4982287a31-goog
