From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Efficacy of xts over 1TB
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:55:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100726225517.GB25883@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280180557.3266.136.camel@fermat.scientia.net>
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:42:37PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Well....
>
> I've just read some sections of the Standard... D4 and D6... it rather
> seems that really the whole size (of the partition) is meant,... and not
> just the block size... although they speak of ranges > 100 TB
>
>
> *confused now*
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
I suspect that comes from only 2^128 possible cipher blocks and the
birthday paradox which would give you the same cipher block twice
when having around 2^64 blocks (modelled as random).
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 21:07 [dm-crypt] Efficacy of xts over 1TB Arno Wagner
2010-07-26 21:31 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-26 21:45 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-26 21:42 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-26 22:55 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2010-07-26 23:42 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-07-27 10:21 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-15 17:26 ` Uwe Menges
2010-08-15 22:10 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-16 11:44 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-08-16 12:39 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-16 12:55 ` octane indice
2010-08-16 14:21 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-21 20:45 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-08-21 23:14 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-22 0:46 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
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2010-07-25 22:25 Ietf Nist
2010-07-25 22:41 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-22 14:57 David Santamaría Rogado
2010-07-25 10:34 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-25 11:18 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-25 12:29 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-07-25 12:25 ` Milan Broz
2010-07-25 13:14 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-25 13:52 ` Milan Broz
2010-07-25 22:37 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-26 0:14 ` Milan Broz
2010-07-26 20:38 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-26 8:53 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-26 20:47 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-26 21:01 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-26 21:28 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-26 21:35 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-25 22:52 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-26 9:42 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-07-26 18:09 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-25 15:32 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-25 22:48 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-25 23:42 ` Milan Broz
2010-07-26 18:35 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-25 15:28 ` Arno Wagner
2010-07-25 18:11 ` Milan Broz
2010-07-26 9:04 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-07-27 18:21 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-27 21:02 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-07-26 9:17 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-07-27 18:42 ` David Santamaría Rogado
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