[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
-- 
2.24.0





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