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From: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Oracle.COM>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Keyfile Support for GRUBs LUKS
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:38:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529328B0.8000904@Oracle.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528C6688.5010806@gmail.com>

On 11/20/13 07:36, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> It's not that easy. Trouble is that you need to also prevent
> inconsistent rollback and for this you need to have a hash tree. Then
> since power failure is a possibility you need this tree to be consistent
> at every moment. Those issues are a bit easier to handle on FS level.
> ZFS supports HMACs. BtrFS perhaps will one day.

Minor terminology nit: ZFS has a MAC not an HMAC. HMAC implies a hash 
based MAC such as HMAC-SHA256.

ZFS uses AES-CCM or AES-GCM modes which are AEAD modes that produce an 
Auth/MAC tag. You could do an equivalent thing with AES-CBC or AES-XTS 
plus HMAC-SHA256 (the original ZFS crypto prototype was AES-CBC with 
HMAC-SHA256 but I switched to AES-CCM/GCM).

-- 
Darren J Moffat


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-25 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-19 23:43 Keyfile Support for GRUBs LUKS Ralf Ramsauer
2013-11-20  1:31 ` Glenn Washburn
2013-11-20  1:55   ` Elliott Mitchell
2013-11-20  5:43     ` Glenn Washburn
2013-11-20  5:48       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-20  7:02         ` Glenn Washburn
2013-11-20  7:36           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-21  5:57             ` Glenn Washburn
2013-11-25 10:38             ` Darren J Moffat [this message]
2013-11-20  6:42       ` Elliott Mitchell
2013-11-20  6:52         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-20 21:08         ` Glenn Washburn
2013-11-21 15:31 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-21 19:34   ` Ralf Ramsauer
2013-11-22  3:01     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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