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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@lists.linux.dev
Subject: A question about modifying the buffer under authenticated encryption
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 22:46:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f22dae2c-9cac-a63-fff-3b0b7305be6@redhat.com> (raw)

Hi

I'm trying to fix some problems in dm-crypt that it may report 
authentication failures when the user reads data with O_DIRECT and 
modifies the read buffer while it is being read.

I'd like to ask you:

1. If the authenticated encryption encrypts a message, reading from 
   buffer1 and writing to buffer2 - and buffer1 changes while reading from 
   it - is it possible that it generates invalid authentication tag?

2. If the authenticated encryption decrypts a message, reading from 
   buffer1 and writing to buffer2 - and buffer2 changes while writing to 
   it - is is possible that it reports authentication tag mismatch?

Mikulas


             reply	other threads:[~2024-02-06 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-06 21:46 Mikulas Patocka [this message]
2024-02-07  0:47 ` A question about modifying the buffer under authenticated encryption Eric Biggers
2024-02-07 12:51   ` Mikulas Patocka
2024-02-08  3:42     ` Herbert Xu
2024-02-08  4:36     ` Eric Biggers
2024-02-08  4:40       ` Herbert Xu

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