XTS currently considered to be the successor of the LRW mode by the IEEE1619
workgroup. LRW was discarded, because it was not secure if the encyption key
itself is encrypted with LRW.
XTS does not have this problem. The implementation is pretty straightforward,
a new function was added to gf128mul to handle GF(128) elements in ble format.
Four testvectors from the specification
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1619/email/pdf00086.pdf
were added, and they verify on my system.
Signed-off-by: Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
A lot of cypher modes need multiplications in GF(2^128). LRW, ABL, GCM...
I use functions from this library in my LRW implementation and I will
also use them in my ABL (Arbitrary Block Length, an unencumbered (correct
me if I am wrong, wide block cipher mode).
Elements of GF(2^128) must be presented as u128 *, it encourages automatic
and proper alignment.
The library contains support for two different representations of GF(2^128),
see the comment in gf128mul.h. There different levels of optimization
(memory/speed tradeoff).
The code is based on work by Dr Brian Gladman. Notable changes:
- deletion of two optimization modes
- change from u32 to u64 for faster handling on 64bit machines
- support for 'bbe' representation in addition to the, already implemented,
'lle' representation.
- move 'inline void' functions from header to 'static void' in the
source file
- update to use the linux coding style conventions
The original can be found at:
http://fp.gladman.plus.com/AES/modes.vc8.19-06-06.zip
The copyright (and GPL statement) of the original author is preserved.
Signed-off-by: Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
