Re: Status in 2007 of: loop-aes VS dm-crypt VS truecrypt

markus reichelt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cryptography
Organization still stuck in reorganization mode
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Christian Kujau <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>  http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2006-09/msg00008.html ->
> >>  "Both cryptoloop and dm-crypt in kernels prior to 2.6.10 are
> >>  vulnerable, and even recent dm-crypt still suffers from a weak
> >>  crypto implementation." => I will be using 2.6.20, which allows
> >>  for LRW mode and thus solve the watermark problem. ->
> >>  "dm-crypt... which leaks location of changed data in some
> >>  unusual situations."
> >
> > " ... not a big problem." = dont worry about this.
> 
>  Here the kernel version *does* matter, IOW the watermark attacks
>  have been fixed in 2.6.10 (see "dm-crypt: new IV mode ESSIV"
>  changelog entry). So "not a big problem" should read "not an issue
>  any more since 12/2004", no?

but he already said he would be using a recent kernel, so... no.

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