[dm-crypt] Twofish 3-way

[Arno Wagner]

Do I understand this right that this can only work if you
have independent disk accesses? For a single sector, the
mode would prevent any paralellization (unless you set 
ECB, which is definitely not a good idea).

Arno

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:22:59PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 01/12/2012 04:06 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >since kernel 3.2 there is a new parallelized variant of twofish
> >available via
> >
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_X86_64_3WAY
> >
> >How can I use it with LUKS/dmcrypt? My current config contains the
> >following:
> >
> ># CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH is not set
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_COMMON=y
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_X86_64=y
> >CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_X86_64_3WAY=y
> >
> >How should these options be set up properly?
> 
> You cannot set directly which version is used through dmcrypt interface,
> (without patching kernel source) but cryptoAPI should detect the fastest
> algorithm automatically.
> 
> For separate modules, force load just that module and unload all other
> should perhaps work as well (before crypto device activation).
> 
> (see /proc/crypto and lsmod modules reference count to check which one
> is really used)
> 
> Milan
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