Publication details
Support for authenticated encryption in Linux dm-crypt disk encryption
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| web | https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00309 |
| Description | Full Disk Encryption (FDE) has become a widely used security feature. Although FDE can provide confidentiality, it generally does not provide cryptographic data integrity protection. We introduce an algorithm-agnostic solution that provides both data integrity and confidentiality protection at the disk sector layer. Our open-source solution is intended for drives without any special hardware extensions and is based on per-sector metadata fields implemented in software. Our implementation has been included in the Linux kernel since the version 4.12. |