linux_dsm_epyc7002/include/uapi
Daniel Walter b7e7cf7a66 fscrypt: add support for AES-128-CBC
fscrypt provides facilities to use different encryption algorithms which
are selectable by userspace when setting the encryption policy. Currently,
only AES-256-XTS for file contents and AES-256-CBC-CTS for file names are
implemented. This is a clear case of kernel offers the mechanism and
userspace selects a policy. Similar to what dm-crypt and ecryptfs have.

This patch adds support for using AES-128-CBC for file contents and
AES-128-CBC-CTS for file name encryption. To mitigate watermarking
attacks, IVs are generated using the ESSIV algorithm. While AES-CBC is
actually slightly less secure than AES-XTS from a security point of view,
there is more widespread hardware support. Using AES-CBC gives us the
acceptable performance while still providing a moderate level of security
for persistent storage.

Especially low-powered embedded devices with crypto accelerators such as
CAAM or CESA often only support AES-CBC. Since using AES-CBC over AES-XTS
is basically thought of a last resort, we use AES-128-CBC over AES-256-CBC
since it has less encryption rounds and yields noticeable better
performance starting from a file size of just a few kB.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter <dwalter@sigma-star.at>
[david@sigma-star.at: addressed review comments]
Signed-off-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2017-06-23 20:05:07 -04:00
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asm-generic uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-next-4.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2017-05-12 13:58:29 +10:00
linux fscrypt: add support for AES-128-CBC 2017-06-23 20:05:07 -04:00
misc uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
mtd uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
rdma uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
scsi uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
sound uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
video uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
xen uapi: export all headers under uapi directories 2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00