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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/crypto/hkdf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/crypto/hkdf.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/crypto/hkdf.c b/fs/crypto/hkdf.c index e0ec21055505..7607d18b35fc 100644 --- a/fs/crypto/hkdf.c +++ b/fs/crypto/hkdf.c @@ -16,9 +16,14 @@ /* * HKDF supports any unkeyed cryptographic hash algorithm, but fscrypt uses - * SHA-512 because it is reasonably secure and efficient; and since it produces - * a 64-byte digest, deriving an AES-256-XTS key preserves all 64 bytes of - * entropy from the master key and requires only one iteration of HKDF-Expand. + * SHA-512 because it is well-established, secure, and reasonably efficient. + * + * HKDF-SHA256 was also considered, as its 256-bit security strength would be + * sufficient here. A 512-bit security strength is "nice to have", though. + * Also, on 64-bit CPUs, SHA-512 is usually just as fast as SHA-256. In the + * common case of deriving an AES-256-XTS key (512 bits), that can result in + * HKDF-SHA512 being much faster than HKDF-SHA256, as the longer digest size of + * SHA-512 causes HKDF-Expand to only need to do one iteration rather than two. */ #define HKDF_HMAC_ALG "hmac(sha512)" #define HKDF_HASHLEN SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE |