Re: cryptsetup with arc4 cipher

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Stelios Bounanos <sb-lst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Again, why crypto API allows to use it and do not produce error then?
> 
> Yes, if arc4 is only used for WEP perhaps the crypto API should emit an
> error earlier so that "cryptsetup luksOpen" fails.

I'm going to fix arc4 so that this "random" behaviour does not
occur.  However, that is not to say that it is a good idea to
use arc4 for disk encryption.

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