[dm-devel] [PATCH] docs: dm-integrity: remove reference to ARC4
Eric Biggers
ebiggers at kernel.org
Sat Dec 7 03:59:21 UTC 2019
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
ARC4 is no longer considered secure, so it shouldn't be used, even as
just an example.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst
index 594095b54b29..c00f9f11e3f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ journal_crypt:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional)
Encrypt the journal using given algorithm to make sure that the
attacker can't read the journal. You can use a block cipher here
(such as "cbc(aes)") or a stream cipher (for example "chacha20",
- "salsa20", "ctr(aes)" or "ecb(arc4)").
+ "salsa20" or "ctr(aes)").
The journal contains history of last writes to the block device,
an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector nubmers
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2.24.0
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