[dm-devel] xts fuzz testing and lack of ciphertext stealing support

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:40:54AM +0000, Pascal Van Leeuwen wrote:
>
> In fact, using the current cts template around the current xts template actually does NOT
> implement standards compliant XTS at all, as the CTS *implementation* for XTS is 
> different from the one for CBC as implemented by the current CTS template.

The template is just a name.  The implementation can do whatever it
wants for each instance.  So obviously we would employ a different
implementation for xts compared to cbc.

Cheers,
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