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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add file-system authentication to BTRFS
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 01:16:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200505231617.GD18421@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200501060336.GD1003@sol.localdomain>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:03:36PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:58:57PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > There was interest in also using a HMAC version of Blake2b from the community,
> > but as none of the crypto libraries used by user-space BTRFS tools as a
> > backend does currently implement a HMAC version with Blake2b, it is not (yet)
> > included.
> 
> Note that BLAKE2b optionally takes a key, so using HMAC with it is unnecessary.
> 
> And the kernel crypto API's implementation of BLAKE2b already supports this.
> I.e. you can call crypto_shash_setkey() directly on "blake2b-256".

The idea behind using HMAC + checksum and not the built-in blake2b keyed
hash was to make the definitions unified and use the established crypto
primitives without algorithm-specific tweaks.

But you're right that using "blake2b-256" + setkey achieves the same, I
haven't realized that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-28 10:58 [PATCH v2 0/2] Add file-system authentication to BTRFS Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-29  7:23   ` kbuild test robot
2020-04-29 11:46   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-01  5:39   ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-01  6:30     ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-04  8:38       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 22:33         ` David Sterba
2020-05-06  8:10           ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-04 10:09     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-04 20:59       ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-05  8:11         ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05  9:26           ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05  9:59             ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05 22:32               ` David Sterba
2020-05-05 23:55                 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-06 20:40             ` btree [was Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support] Goffredo Baroncelli
2020-05-05 22:19           ` [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: add authentication support David Sterba
2020-05-05 22:37           ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-06  8:30             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 22:14         ` David Sterba
2020-05-05 22:31           ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-05 22:46             ` David Sterba
2020-05-05 23:31               ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-06  0:29                 ` David Sterba
2020-05-06  0:44                   ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-04 21:37       ` Richard Weinberger
2020-05-05  7:46         ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 11:56           ` Richard Weinberger
2020-05-04 21:59   ` Richard Weinberger
2020-05-05  7:55     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 12:36       ` Jeff Mahoney
2020-05-05 12:39         ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05 12:41           ` Jeff Mahoney
2020-05-05 12:48             ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-05 23:02           ` David Sterba
2020-05-06 21:24         ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2020-05-05 23:00     ` David Sterba
2020-05-05  9:43   ` Qu Wenruo
2020-05-06 20:59     ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2020-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: rename btrfs_parse_device_options back to btrfs_parse_early_options Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-01  6:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Add file-system authentication to BTRFS Eric Biggers
2020-05-04  8:39   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-05 23:16   ` David Sterba [this message]
2020-05-01 21:26 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-05-05 23:38   ` David Sterba

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