Re: storing an explicit nonce

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:21:28PM +0300, Ants Aasma wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 16:14, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
>     Well, how do you detect an all-zero page vs a page that encrypted to all
>     zeros?
> 
> Page encrypting to all zeros is for all practical purposes impossible to hit.
> Basically an attacker would have to be able to arbitrarily set the whole
> contents of the page and they would then achieve that this page gets ignored.

Uh, how do we know that valid data can't produce an encrypted all-zero
page?

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