Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] crypto: Adiantum support

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

Hi Milan,

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:26:20PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> 
> Adiantum (as in your current git branches on kernel.org) can be used for dm-crypt
> without any changes (yes, I played with it :) and with some easy tricks directly
> through cryptsetup/LUKS as well.
> 
> I think we should have this as an alternative to length-preserving wide-block
> cipher modes for FDE.
> 

Yes, dm-crypt can use Adiantum by specifying the cipher as
"capi:adiantum(xchacha12,aes)-plain64".

But, I'm having trouble getting cryptsetup/LUKS to use Adiantum.
Using LUKS1, the following works:

    cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/$partition --cipher='capi:adiantum(xchacha12,aes)-plain64' --key-size 256

However, when possible we'd like people to use 4K sectors for better
performance, which I understand requires using the LUKS2 format along with
cryptsetup v2.0.0+ and Linux v4.12+.  But the following does *not* work:

    cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/$partition --cipher='capi:adiantum(xchacha12,aes)-plain64' --key-size 256 --type luks2 --sector-size 4096

The problem seems to be that when cryptsetup tries to encrypt the keyslot in
luks2_encrypt_to_storage(), it tries to use the algorithm via AF_ALG, but it
incorrectly requests "plain64(capi:adiantum(xchacha12,aes))" which fails.
It should request just "adiantum(xchacha12,aes)".

What are the "easy tricks" you had in mind -- do you mean there's already a way
to use Adiantum with cryptsetup, or do you mean that cryptsetup still needs to
be updated to fully support algorithms using the crypto API syntax?

Thanks,

- Eric