Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 6 authors, 2017-12-11

Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: add support for ChaCha20 contents encryption

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date: 2017-12-08 02:51:33
Also in: linux-ext4, linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fscrypt, linux-fsdevel

Hi Eric,

Nice to see more use of ChaCha20. However...

Can we skip over the "sort of worse than XTS, but not having _real_
authentication sucks anyway in either case, so whatever" and move
directly to, "linux finally supports authenticated encryption for disk
encryption!"? This would be a big deal and would actually be a
noticeable security improvement, instead of a potentially dubious step
sidewaysbackish.

Bcachefs supports ChaCha20Poly1305, which is pretty neat. From what
I've read, performance is acceptable too.
http://bcachefs.org/Encryption/

Jason
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