On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One last question for everyone who has read this rather long mail (thank > you, btw): What exactly is benbi in aes-lrw-benbi:sha256 and what should > I choose for XTS? The kernel description states plain but essiv and > benbi work as well. >
benbi is an IV generation algorithm. If you look at the dm-crypt sources [1], benbi stands for "big-endian 'narrow block'-count" (not sure where they got the `i' from...). There's also one called bewbi, which I thought was entertaining. Sincerely, Mansour Moufid [1] http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c#L110 -- [email protected] mailing list
