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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:16:14 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Sean Fagan <sef@ixsystems.com>
Cc:        Matthew Macy <mmacy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Native Encryption for ZFS on FreeBSD CFT
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:13 PM Sean Fagan <sef@ixsystems.com> wrote:

> On Aug 21, 2018, at 8:11 PM, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > The last time I looked (which was a long time ago), Oracle's ZFS
> encryption looked extremely vulnerable to watermarking attacks.  Did
> anybody ever fix that?
>
> This isn=E2=80=99t Oracle=E2=80=99s implementation, but I don=E2=80=99t k=
now how compatible or not
> it is with it.
>
> Sean.
>

It wasn't just an implementation problem, it was in the design.  IIRC,
Oracle's encryption allowed encrypted blocks to be deduplicated.  There's
pretty much no way to defend against watermarking attacks with such a
design.  Does the new encryption design have the same flaw?

-Alan



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