From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Twofish 3-way
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:28:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120112162815.GA13265@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0EFAD3.3090908@redhat.com>
Do I understand this right that this can only work if you
have independent disk accesses? For a single sector, the
mode would prevent any paralellization (unless you set
ECB, which is definitely not a good idea).
Arno
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:22:59PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 01/12/2012 04:06 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >since kernel 3.2 there is a new parallelized variant of twofish
> >available via
> >
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_X86_64_3WAY
> >
> >How can I use it with LUKS/dmcrypt? My current config contains the
> >following:
> >
> ># CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH is not set
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_COMMON=y
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_X86_64=y
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_X86_64_3WAY=y
> >
> >How should these options be set up properly?
>
> You cannot set directly which version is used through dmcrypt interface,
> (without patching kernel source) but cryptoAPI should detect the fastest
> algorithm automatically.
>
> For separate modules, force load just that module and unload all other
> should perhaps work as well (before crypto device activation).
>
> (see /proc/crypto and lsmod modules reference count to check which one
> is really used)
>
> Milan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 15:06 [dm-crypt] Twofish 3-way Heinz Diehl
2012-01-12 15:22 ` Milan Broz
2012-01-12 16:28 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2012-01-12 18:19 ` Milan Broz
2012-01-15 15:05 ` Heinz Diehl
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