From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Why the auxiliary cipher in gss_krb5_crypto.c?
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 11:05:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76331A46-235E-4A35-BA07-F4811FA29EB5@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201204154626.GA26255@fieldses.org>
> On Dec 4, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 02:59:35PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>> Hi Chuck, Bruce,
>>
>> Why is gss_krb5_crypto.c using an auxiliary cipher? For reference, the
>> gss_krb5_aes_encrypt() code looks like the attached.
>>
>>> From what I can tell, in AES mode, the difference between the main cipher and
>> the auxiliary cipher is that the latter is "cbc(aes)" whereas the former is
>> "cts(cbc(aes))" - but they have the same key.
>>
>> Reading up on CTS, I'm guessing the reason it's like this is that CTS is the
>> same as the non-CTS, except for the last two blocks, but the non-CTS one is
>> more efficient.
>
> CTS is cipher-text stealing, isn't it? I think it was Kevin Coffman
> that did that, and I don't remember the history. I thought it was
> required by some spec or peer implementation (maybe Windows?) but I
> really don't remember. It may predate git. I'll dig around and see
> what I can find.
I can't add more here, this design comes from well before I started
working on this body of code (though, I worked near Kevin when he
implemented it).
--
Chuck Lever
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-04 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 12:57 [RFC][PATCH 00/18] crypto: Add generic Kerberos library David Howells
2020-11-12 12:57 ` [PATCH 01/18] crypto/krb5: Implement Kerberos crypto core David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 02/18] crypto/krb5: Add some constants out of sunrpc headers David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 03/18] crypto/krb5: Provide infrastructure and key derivation David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 04/18] crypto/krb5: Implement the Kerberos5 rfc3961 " David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 05/18] crypto/krb5: Implement the Kerberos5 rfc3961 encrypt and decrypt functions David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 06/18] crypto/krb5: Implement the Kerberos5 rfc3961 get_mic and verify_mic David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 07/18] crypto/krb5: Implement the AES enctypes from rfc3962 David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 08/18] crypto/krb5: Implement crypto self-testing David Howells
2020-11-12 12:58 ` [PATCH 09/18] crypto/krb5: Implement the AES enctypes from rfc8009 David Howells
2020-11-12 12:59 ` [PATCH 10/18] crypto/krb5: Implement the AES encrypt/decrypt " David Howells
2020-11-12 12:59 ` [PATCH 11/18] crypto/krb5: Add the AES self-testing data " David Howells
2020-11-12 12:59 ` [PATCH 12/18] crypto/krb5: Implement the Camellia enctypes from rfc6803 David Howells
2020-11-12 12:59 ` [PATCH 13/18] rxrpc: Add the security index for yfs-rxgk David Howells
2020-11-12 12:59 ` [PATCH 14/18] rxrpc: Add YFS RxGK (GSSAPI) security class David Howells
2020-11-12 12:59 ` [PATCH 15/18] rxrpc: rxgk: Provide infrastructure and key derivation David Howells
2020-11-12 12:59 ` [PATCH 16/18] rxrpc: rxgk: Implement the yfs-rxgk security class (GSSAPI) David Howells
2020-11-12 13:00 ` [PATCH 17/18] rxrpc: rxgk: Implement connection rekeying David Howells
2020-11-12 13:00 ` [PATCH 18/18] rxgk: Support OpenAFS's rxgk implementation David Howells
2020-11-12 13:44 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/18] crypto: Add generic Kerberos library David Howells
2020-11-12 14:36 ` Chuck Lever
2020-11-12 15:42 ` David Howells
2020-11-12 15:49 ` Chuck Lever
2020-11-12 16:54 ` David Howells
2020-11-12 21:07 ` Bruce Fields
2020-11-12 21:09 ` Chuck Lever
2020-11-12 18:37 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-12 18:39 ` Chuck Lever
2020-11-26 6:33 ` Herbert Xu
2020-11-26 8:19 ` David Howells
2020-11-27 5:07 ` Herbert Xu
2020-12-01 8:44 ` David Howells
2020-12-01 8:46 ` Herbert Xu
2020-12-01 9:12 ` David Howells
2020-12-01 10:36 ` Herbert Xu
2020-12-04 14:59 ` Why the auxiliary cipher in gss_krb5_crypto.c? David Howells
2020-12-04 15:46 ` Bruce Fields
2020-12-04 16:05 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2020-12-04 16:14 ` Bruce Fields
2020-12-04 16:01 ` David Howells
2020-12-04 16:03 ` Bruce Fields
2020-12-04 16:50 ` David Howells
2020-12-04 17:06 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-12-04 17:19 ` David Howells
2020-12-04 17:35 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-12-04 21:08 ` Herbert Xu
2020-12-07 8:24 ` David Howells
2020-12-07 12:01 ` David Howells
2020-12-07 13:08 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-12-07 14:15 ` David Howells
2020-12-08 8:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-12-08 9:18 ` David Howells
2020-12-04 18:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-12-08 13:25 ` David Howells
2020-12-08 14:04 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-12-08 14:13 ` David Howells
2020-12-08 14:02 ` David Howells
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