Re: [PATCH] crypto: doc - remove references to ARC4

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On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 at 04:20, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@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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