[PATCH] crypto: doc - remove references to ARC4

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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

arc4 is no longer considered secure, so it shouldn't be used, even as
just an example.  Mention serpent and chacha20 instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst b/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst
index f9d288015acc..fb6b7979a1de 100644
--- a/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst
+++ b/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ follows:
 Single-Block Symmetric Ciphers [CIPHER]
 ---------------------------------------
 
-Example of transformations: aes, arc4, ...
+Example of transformations: aes, serpent, ...
 
 This section describes the simplest of all transformation
 implementations, that being the CIPHER type used for symmetric ciphers.
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ is also valid:
 Multi-Block Ciphers
 -------------------
 
-Example of transformations: cbc(aes), ecb(arc4), ...
+Example of transformations: cbc(aes), chacha20, ...
 
 This section describes the multi-block cipher transformation
 implementations. The multi-block ciphers are used for transformations
-- 
2.24.0




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