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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>, David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	jaegeuk@kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>,
	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: make XTS tweak initialization endian-independent
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 23:14:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac10ada8-40fc-e946-7593-efa08eb875d1@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c01fd8e-95e6-669c-9f9d-30ab5a7af9fd@nod.at>

Michael,

On 05.10.2016 20:44, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Well, let's focus first on file contents.
> We have already the fscrypo framework.
> 
> What you suggest is completely different from what we have now.

To clarify that, I'm not saying that meta-data or block level authentication
is a bad idea. But let's start with small steps and consider file contents
authentication first. Of course this has some attack vectors but these
can be documented and for many use case these are acceptable.

Thanks,
//richard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-05 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20161005170659.GA110549@google.com>
2016-10-05 18:23 ` [PATCH] fscrypto: make XTS tweak initialization endian-independent Michael Halcrow
2016-10-05 18:44   ` Richard Weinberger
2016-10-05 21:11     ` Michael Halcrow
2016-10-05 21:18       ` Richard Weinberger
2016-10-05 21:14     ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2016-10-06  1:17       ` Dave Chinner
2016-10-06  2:16         ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-10-06 22:23           ` Dave Chinner
2016-10-07 16:05             ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-30 17:58 Eric Biggers
2016-10-01 16:03 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-10-03 18:03   ` Eric Biggers
2016-10-04  8:46     ` Richard Weinberger
2016-10-04 16:38       ` Eric Biggers
2016-10-05  9:08         ` David Gstir
2016-10-13  3:39     ` Theodore Ts'o

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