I want to do block level encrypton on my ext4 image file system with aes-cbc-essiv
How can I find/calculate the the ESSIV needed for encryption?
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Wikipedia has this documented.
Essentially: Let $\text{SN}$ by the current sector number encoded as a 128-bit integer. Let $K$ be the key used for encryption. Let $\operatorname{hash}(\cdot)$ be a hash function, which is specified in the cipher name.
Now the $\text{IV}$ is computed as $\operatorname{IV}(\text{SN})=E_{\operatorname{hash}(K)}(\text{SN})$.
The relevant code can be found for the key-calculation and for the actual IV.
