Re: PROBLEM: AES cryptoloop corruption under recent -mm kernels

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:16:21PM -0500, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> 
> > Jim,
> > If you want your data secure, you need to re-encrypt your data anyway.
> > Mainline loop crypto implementation has exploitable vulnerability that is
> > equivalent to back door.
> 
> What exactly is this vulnerability?
> 

http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~mjos/doc/herring061103.pdf

That PDF by Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen discusses about these vulnerabilities,
and has one solution to them.

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