From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: "open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE"
<linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: doc - remove references to ARC4
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 10:15:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu8za_CcBdeeZhXC4ARZ6FakUbRrNKb6J8dycgqrc59Omw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191207041937.97925-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>
On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 at 04:20, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
>
> 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@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> ---
> 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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-07 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-07 4:19 [PATCH] crypto: doc - remove references to ARC4 Eric Biggers
2019-12-07 10:15 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2019-12-11 9:46 ` Herbert Xu
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