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Fast cipher without needing hardware support (like ChaCha20) for disk encryption
On my old laptop, ChaCha20 is quite a bit faster than AES as there is no hardware acceleration for AES. But for disk encryption AES based schemes seem to be the only option, as a stream cipher like ...
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Why is using ChaCha20 for disk encryption insecure?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory
Why do we use XTS over CTR for disk encryption?
If we used ChaCha20 (without authentication) by simply encrypting each disk sector with the same ...
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