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
Hello list (cc: Herbert, Christoph),
In my previous mail you will find a proposed patch to
implement XTS (a block cipher mode alike LRW, but unlike
LRW, no known security problems (LRW has problems encrypting
it's own key)). An email from Cristoph sparked my interest,
and the lrw.c file was a good
* Eran Ben-Avi | 2007-09-02 23:46:56 [-0700]:
>What is the status of these patches ? Is it going to be part of 2.6.23 ?
It will not be part of 2.6.23.
Sebastian
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