On 29/10/2020 11:05, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>  
> +config CRYPTO_EBOIV
> +     tristate "EBOIV support for block encryption"
> +     default DM_CRYPT
> +     select CRYPTO_CBC
> +     help
> +       Encrypted byte-offset initialization vector (EBOIV) is an IV
> +       generation method that is used in some cases by dm-crypt for
> +       supporting the BitLocker volume encryption used by Windows 8
> +       and onwards as a backwards compatible version in lieu of XTS
> +       support.
> +
> +       It uses the block encryption key as the symmetric key for a
> +       block encryption pass applied to the sector offset of the block.
> +       Additional details can be found at
> +       https://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/JESD223C.pdf

This page is not available. Are you sure this is the proper documentation?

I think the only description we used (for dm-crypt) was original Ferguson's 
Bitlocker doc:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/3/0238acaf-d3bf-4a6d-b3d6-0a0be4bbb36e/bitlockercipher200608.pdf

IIRC EBOIV was a shortcut I added to dm-crypt because we found no official 
terminology for this IV.
And after lunchtime, nobody invented anything better, so it stayed as it is now 
:-)

Milan

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