ESSIV vs XTS

dave <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:01:17 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cryptography
Message-ID <1254542477.12827.4.camel@ubuntu>
I am wondering which mode of operation I should use with LUKS.
I plan on either cbc-essiv or xts-benbi.
The reason i ask as that the XTS kernel module is still flagged as
excremental. If it was not I would simply use XTS-benbi.
Note that TrueCrypt uses the XTS module, and the developers of it have
probably looked at XTS.c (hopefully). Can anyone shed some light on this
subject?


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