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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Kirill Marinushkin <k.marinushkin@gmail.com>,
	security@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] security/keys: rewrite all of big_key crypto
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:45:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2545404.XUVGGHhd0i@tauon.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9pvZ-Q8qoUGjQjXX_DYNVv43C7MJRDzKZAAotM5UZircA@mail.gmail.com>

Am Mittwoch, 20. September 2017, 12:52:21 CEST schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:

Hi Jason,

> 
> This sounds incorrect to me.  Choosing a fresh, random, one-time-use
> 256-bit key and rolling with a zero nonce is a totally legitimate way
> of using GCM. There's no possible reuse of the key stream this way.
> However, on the off chance that you know what you're talking about,
> could you outline the cryptographic attack you have in mind, or if
> that's too difficult, simply link to the relevant paper on eprint?

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/Joux_comments.pdf

Ciao
Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-16 13:00 [PATCH v4] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-16 13:05 ` [PATCH v5] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-17  6:04   ` Eric Biggers
2017-09-17 11:50     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-17 11:52       ` [PATCH v6] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-20  5:30         ` Stephan Mueller
2017-09-20 10:52           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-20 13:45             ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2017-09-20 14:01               ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-20 14:06                 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-09-20 14:09                   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-19 15:38       ` David Howells
2017-09-20 14:56         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-18  8:49 ` [PATCH v4] " Stephan Mueller
2017-09-18  9:04   ` [kernel-hardening] " Greg KH
2017-09-18  9:12     ` Stephan Mueller
2017-09-18 11:24   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-19 13:39     ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-19 19:04       ` [kernel-hardening] " Sandy Harris
2017-09-19 19:17         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-09-20  1:16         ` Theodore Ts'o

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