Kernel: AES-128-CBC Support, Linux 4.12 5 Days Away, Stable New Kernels and More
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AES-128-CBC Support Coming To Fscrypt
AES-128-CBC support is coming to fscrypt, the generic file-system crypto code in the Linux kernel that's currently in use by F2FS and EXT4 for offering native file-system encryption support.
Fscrypt currently makes use of AES-256-XTS/AES-256-CBC-CTS but the fscrypt design allows for supporting multiple encryption standards. Support for AES-128-CBC in file contents and AES-128-CBC-CTS for file names is being added namely for mobile/embedded hardware that may provide crypto accelerators for these standards.
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Linux Kernel 4.12 Could Launch on July 2 as Linus Torvalds Announces Last RC
Those wanting to always run the latest Linux kernel on their GNU/Linux distributions will be happy to learn that the Linux 4.12 series is almost here and could launch as soon as next week, on July 2, 2017.
In a mailing list announcement, Linus Torvalds informed the community about the availability of what it appears to be the last RC (Release Candidate) of Linux kernel 4.12, which he considers a fairly small patch that doesn't bring any huge surprises. Therefore, the final release of the Linux 4.12 kernel series could arrive next week.
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Kernel prepatch 4.12-rc7
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Stable kernel updates
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[Older] [RFC PATCH] KEYS: Allow a live daemon in a namespace to service request_key upcalls
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