WCFB can benefit from commonly occurring plaintext, such as encryption of a 0^nm sector, and repeated operations on the same wide block.
We prove the birthday-bound security of the mode, expressed in terms of the security of the underlying block cipher.
A case analysis of disk block access requests by Windows 8.1 is provided.
Category / Keywords: secret-key cryptography / wide block encryption mode, PRP, disk encryption, large dataset encryption Date: received 23 Apr 2014, last revised 16 May 2014 Contact author: crypto at brainhub org Available format(s): PDF | BibTeX Citation Version: 20140516:072507 (All versions of this report) Short URL: ia.cr/2014/281