[Tails-dev] CBC malleability attack

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Autor: Marco Calamari
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Temat: [Tails-dev] CBC malleability attack
After readint the descritpion of this attack (injection attack type
against LUKS-CBC volumes)

<http://www.jakoblell.com/blog/2013/12/22/practical-malleability-attack-against-cbc-encrypted-luks-partitions/>

I check that my persistent partition (built a lot of TAILS
version ago) is of CBC type.

Time to switch to XTS and/or warn user having CBC partition to
reformat?

Thanks a lot and good X-mas

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