On Thursday 29 July 2010 01:46:29 pm Matthew Toseland wrote:
>  block. We could also introduce a checksum if we wanted to. - What do other
>  apps do in the same situation? What does TrueCrypt do? Does it address
>  this issue? It doesn't have to deal with the filesystem issues but

There is a mailing list called linux-crypto which is mostly related to loop-
AES (was the best solution before dm-crypt...) ... It's a kernel driver for 
encrypting loopback devices which is typically used for encrypting disks.
I can remember reading the phrase "IV" very often there, but I don't promise 
that this is right.

I suggest you send a mail to Jari Ruusu <jariruusu at users.sourceforge.net>
He is the author of loop-AES and can explain you the different options.
He seems to be competent in explaining even the most unlikely theoretical 
attacks - AFAIRC he criticized dm-crypt for some issues related to IVs ...

You could also write to the linux-crypto mailing list, Jari is usually there
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-crypto
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