[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 1/6] crypto: essiv - create wrapper template for ESSIV generation

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:30:41AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Is this the right approach? Or are there better ways to convey this
> information when instantiating the template?
> Also, it seems to me that the dm-crypt and fscrypt layers would
> require major surgery in order to take advantage of this.

Oh and you don't have to make dm-crypt use it from the start.  That
is, you can just make things simple by doing it one sector at a
time in the dm-crypt code even though the underlying essiv code
supports multiple sectors.

Someone who cares about this is sure to come along and fix it later.

Cheers,
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