HCTR2 is a tweakable, length-preserving encryption mode that is intended
for use on CPUs with dedicated crypto instructions. HCTR2 has the
property that a bitflip in the plaintext changes the entire ciphertext.
This property fixes a known weakness with filename encryption: when two
filenames in the same directory share a prefix of >= 16 bytes, with
AES-CTS-CBC their encrypted filenames share a common substring, leaking
information. HCTR2 does not have this problem.
More information on HCTR2 can be found here: "Length-preserving
encryption with HCTR2": https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf
Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Bug: 233652475
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220520181501.2159644-4-nhuck@google.com/T/
(cherry picked from commit 6b2a51ff03bf0c54cbc699ee85a9a49eb203ebfc)
Change-Id: Ie94df666c40388d100485c9ec05a734dc8fc3c23
Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
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