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From: "Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: "dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Lutomirski, Andy" <luto@kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Gairuboyina, Charishma1" <charishma1.gairuboyina@intel.com>,
	"Dwarakanath, Kumar N" <kumar.n.dwarakanath@intel.com>,
	"Krishnakumar,
	Lalithambika" <lalithambika.krishnakumar@intel.com>,
	"Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] x86: Support Key Locker
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 06:13:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B67A9D30-2FC8-4AF7-957F-5A90D889142F@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdZ5HrOKEffBrQIm@sol.localdomain>

On Jan 5, 2022, at 21:07, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 09:55:17PM +0000, Bae, Chang Seok wrote:
>> 
>> As long as it is factual that the mode was once popular, it can help somebody
>> who wants to use Key Locker for an old disk image I think.
> 
> AES-CBC is/was usually used with ESSIV, in which case the key cannot be fully
> protected by Key Locker.
> 
> I'm not sure you should bother to support legacy use cases, especially since it
> might mislead users into choosing a worse algorithm.

Alright, this is not that critical as it will be possible to add this mode
later when needed.

Thanks,
Chang

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-06  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-14  0:51 [PATCH v4 00/13] x86: Support Key Locker Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] Documentation/x86: Document " Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] x86/cpufeature: Enumerate Key Locker feature Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] x86/insn: Add Key Locker instructions to the opcode map Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] x86/asm: Add a wrapper function for the LOADIWKEY instruction Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] x86/msr-index: Add MSRs for Key Locker internal wrapping key Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] x86/keylocker: Define Key Locker CPUID leaf Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] x86/cpu/keylocker: Load an internal wrapping key at boot-time Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] x86/power/keylocker: Restore internal wrapping key from the ACPI S3/4 sleep states Chang S. Bae
2021-12-17 15:42   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-22  4:58     ` Bae, Chang Seok
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] x86/cpu: Add a configuration and command line option for Key Locker Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] crypto: x86/aes - Prepare for a new AES implementation Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] crypto: x86/aes-kl - Support AES algorithm using Key Locker instructions Chang S. Bae
2021-12-24 17:42   ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-01-07 18:06     ` Bae, Chang Seok
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] crypto: x86/aes-kl - Support CBC mode Chang S. Bae
2021-12-14  0:52 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] crypto: x86/aes-kl - Support XTS mode Chang S. Bae
2021-12-16  1:09 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] x86: Support Key Locker Eric Biggers
2022-01-05 21:55   ` Bae, Chang Seok
2022-01-06  5:07     ` Eric Biggers
2022-01-06  6:13       ` Bae, Chang Seok [this message]
2022-01-06 16:25       ` [dm-devel] " Milan Broz

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