Re: information about loop-aes encryption mode

Jari Ruusu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cryptography
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
peterer wrote:
> I'm trying to get information about loop-aes. Which mode of operation is
> used when loop-aes is in multi-key-v3-mode?

CBC mode, using IV that depends on one of the secret keys, unencrypted data
of the sector, and sector number.

More info here:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2006-05/msg00049.html
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2006-05/msg00054.html

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