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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:23:13 -0700
From:      Sean Fagan <sef@ixsystems.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
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 Aug 22, 2018, at 12:20 PM, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
> ]That doesn't answer the question about what happens when dedup is =
turned off.  In that case, is the HMAC still used as the IV?  If so, =
then watermarking attacks are still possible.  If ZFS switches to a =
random IV when dedup is off, then it would probably be ok.

=46rom the same file:

 * Initialization Vector (IV):                                           =
                            =20
 * An initialization vector for the encryption algorithms. This is used =
to                           =20
 * "tweak" the encryption algorithms so that two blocks of the same data =
are                         =20
 * encrypted into different ciphertext outputs, thus obfuscating block =
patterns.                     =20
 * The supported encryption modes (AES-GCM and AES-CCM) require that an =
IV is                        =20
 * never reused with the same encryption key. This value is stored =
unencrypted                       =20
 * and must simply be provided to the decryption function. We use a 96 =
bit IV                        =20
 * (as recommended by NIST) for all block encryption. For non-dedup =
blocks we                        =20
 * derive the IV randomly. The first 64 bits of the IV are stored in the =
second                      =20
 * word of DVA[2] and the remaining 32 bits are stored in the upper 32 =
bits of                       =20
 * blk_fill. This is safe because encrypted blocks can't use the upper =
32 bits                       =20
 * of blk_fill. We only encrypt level 0 blocks, which normally have a =
fill count                     =20
 * of 1. The only exception is for DMU_OT_DNODE objects, where the fill =
count of                     =20
 * level 0 blocks is the number of allocated dnodes in that block. The =
on-disk                       =20
 * format supports at most 2^15 slots per L0 dnode block, because the =
maximum                        =20
 * block size is 16MB (2^24). In either case, for level 0 blocks this =
number                         =20
 * will still be smaller than UINT32_MAX so it is safe to store the IV =
in the                        =20
 * top 32 bits of blk_fill, while leaving the bottom 32 bits of the fill =
count                       =20
 * for the dnode code.                                                   =
                            =20

Sean





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