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HCTR2 is a tweakable, length-preserving encryption mode that is intended for use on CPUs with dedicated crypto instructions. HCTR2 has the property that a bitflip in the plaintext changes the entire ciphertext. This property fixes a known weakness with filename encryption: when two filenames in the same directory share a prefix of >= 16 bytes, with AES-CTS-CBC their encrypted filenames share a common substring, leaking information. HCTR2 does not have this problem. More information on HCTR2 can be found here: "Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2": https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.