From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>,
dsterba@suse.cz, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
Linux BTRFS Mailinglist <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Add support for SHA-256 checksums
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 09:47:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190520074750.GC4985@x250> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190518003808.GA17312@angband.pl>
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 02:38:08AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 09:07:03PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 08:36:23PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
> > > If btrfs needs an algorithm with good performance/security ratio, I would
> > > suggest considering BLAKE2 [1]. It is based in the BLAKE algorithm that made
> > > to the final round in the SHA3 competition, it is considered pretty secure
> > > (above SHA2 at least), and it was designed to take advantage of modern CPU
> > > features and be as fast as possible - it even beats SHA1 in that regard. It is
> > > not currently in the kernel but Wireguard uses it and will add an
> > > implementation when it's merged (but Wireguard doesn't use the crypto layer
> > > for some reason...)
> >
> > SHA3 is on my list of other candidates to look at for a performance
> > evaluation. As for BLAKE2 I haven't done too much research on it and I'm not a
> > cryptographer so I have to trust FIPS et al.
>
> "Trust FIPS" is the main problem here. Until recently, FIPS certification
> required implementing this nice random generator:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
>
> Thus, a good part of people are reluctant to use hash functions chosen by
> NIST (and published as FIPS).
I know, but please also understand that there are applications which do
require FIPS certified algorithms.
Byte,
Johannes
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-10 11:15 [PATCH 00/17] Add support for SHA-256 checksums Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 01/17] btrfs: use btrfs_csum_data() instead of directly calling crc32c Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 16:16 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 02/17] btrfs: resurrect btrfs_crc32c() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 16:16 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 03/17] btrfs: use btrfs_crc32c() instead of btrfs_extref_hash() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:03 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 04/17] btrfs: use btrfs_crc32c() instead of btrfs_name_hash() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 12:56 ` Chris Mason
2019-05-13 7:04 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 05/17] btrfs: don't assume ordered sums to be 4 bytes Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:25 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 13:27 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-13 7:06 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 06/17] btrfs: dont assume compressed_bio " Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 07/17] btrfs: use btrfs_crc32c{,_final}() in for free space cache Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:27 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 08/17] btrfs: format checksums according to type for printing Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:28 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 09/17] btrfs: add common checksum type validation Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:37 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 10/17] btrfs: check for supported superblock checksum type before checksum validation Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:37 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 11/17] btrfs: Simplify btrfs_check_super_csum() and get rid of size assumptions Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:41 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 12/17] btrfs: add boilerplate code for directly including the crypto framework Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 16:28 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 13/17] btrfs: pass in an fs_info to btrfs_csum_{data,final}() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 14/17] btrfs: directly call into crypto framework for checsumming Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 13:45 ` Chris Mason
2019-05-10 13:54 ` Chris Mason
2019-05-13 7:17 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 13:55 ` Chris Mason
2019-05-14 12:46 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 13:00 ` David Sterba
2019-05-13 13:01 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 14:30 ` David Sterba
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 15/17] btrfs: remove assumption about csum type form btrfs_csum_{data,final}() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 12:56 ` David Sterba
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 16/17] btrfs: remove assumption about csum type form btrfs_print_data_csum_error() Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 11:15 ` [PATCH 17/17] btrfs: add sha256 as another checksum algorithm Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-10 12:30 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-13 7:11 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-13 12:54 ` David Sterba
2019-05-13 12:55 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-15 1:45 ` Jeff Mahoney
2019-05-13 12:55 ` David Sterba
2019-05-13 12:58 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-15 17:27 ` [PATCH 00/17] Add support for SHA-256 checksums David Sterba
2019-05-16 6:30 ` Paul Jones
2019-05-16 8:16 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-05-16 8:20 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-17 18:36 ` Diego Calleja
2019-05-17 19:07 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-18 0:38 ` Adam Borowski
2019-05-20 7:47 ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2019-05-20 11:34 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-05-20 11:57 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-05-20 11:42 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-05-30 12:21 ` David Sterba
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