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DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption

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In addition to Eric Biggers of Google being busy working on [1]various crypto and hashing performance optimizations , the longtime Linux developer has also been working on "dm-inlinecrypt" for better leveraging inline block device encryption.

The dm-inlinecrypt is a new inline block device encryption target for Device Mapper. Unlike the dm-crypt target that uses the regular Linux kernel crypto API, dm-inlinecrypt uses the block crypto API to allow taking advantage of inline encryption hardware. In particular, UFS host controllers commonly boast such capabilities.

The dm-inlinecrypt code is based on Android's dm-default-key but with passthrough support removed.

Those interested in this ongoing work around dm-inlinecrypt can see the latest patches via [2]this Git branch .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-CRC32X-x86

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=dm-inlinecrypt


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