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| author | Eric Biggers | 2020-01-20 14:31:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Eric Biggers | 2020-01-22 14:49:56 -0800 |
| commit | f592efe735a29c764e0d473307dab0f59665f02b (patch) | |
| tree | cc1a0fb4976f66499d62756cc22a7febae2f255a /Documentation | |
| parent | aa408f835d025a839033988d3f5a2866314414ef (diff) | |
fscrypt: clarify what is meant by a per-file key
Now that there's sometimes a second type of per-file key (the dirhash
key), clarify some function names, macros, and documentation that
specifically deal with per-file *encryption* keys.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120223201.241390-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index c45f5bcc13e1..d5b1b49c3d00 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ HKDF is more flexible, is nonreversible, and evenly distributes entropy from the master key. HKDF is also standardized and widely used by other software, whereas the AES-128-ECB based KDF is ad-hoc. -Per-file keys -------------- +Per-file encryption keys +------------------------ Since each master key can protect many files, it is necessary to "tweak" the encryption of each file so that the same plaintext in two @@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ is greater than that of an AES-256-XTS key. Therefore, to improve performance and save memory, for Adiantum a "direct key" configuration is supported. When the user has enabled this by setting FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY in the fscrypt policy, -per-file keys are not used. Instead, whenever any data (contents or -filenames) is encrypted, the file's 16-byte nonce is included in the -IV. Moreover: +per-file encryption keys are not used. Instead, whenever any data +(contents or filenames) is encrypted, the file's 16-byte nonce is +included in the IV. Moreover: - For v1 encryption policies, the encryption is done directly with the master key. Because of this, users **must not** use the same master @@ -335,11 +335,11 @@ used. Adiantum is a (primarily) stream cipher-based mode that is fast even on CPUs without dedicated crypto instructions. It's also a true wide-block mode, unlike XTS. It can also eliminate the need to derive -per-file keys. However, it depends on the security of two primitives, -XChaCha12 and AES-256, rather than just one. See the paper -"Adiantum: length-preserving encryption for entry-level processors" -(https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/720.pdf) for more details. To use -Adiantum, CONFIG_CRYPTO_ADIANTUM must be enabled. Also, fast +per-file encryption keys. However, it depends on the security of two +primitives, XChaCha12 and AES-256, rather than just one. See the +paper "Adiantum: length-preserving encryption for entry-level +processors" (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/720.pdf) for more details. +To use Adiantum, CONFIG_CRYPTO_ADIANTUM must be enabled. Also, fast implementations of ChaCha and NHPoly1305 should be enabled, e.g. CONFIG_CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON and CONFIG_CRYPTO_NHPOLY1305_NEON for ARM. @@ -1149,8 +1149,8 @@ The context structs contain the same information as the corresponding policy structs (see `Setting an encryption policy`_), except that the context structs also contain a nonce. The nonce is randomly generated by the kernel and is used as KDF input or as a tweak to cause -different files to be encrypted differently; see `Per-file keys`_ and -`DIRECT_KEY policies`_. +different files to be encrypted differently; see `Per-file encryption +keys`_ and `DIRECT_KEY policies`_. Data path changes ----------------- |