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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2021-01-21 14:07:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2021-01-29 16:07:04 +1100 |
| commit | 663f63ee6d9cdc68adf9afca5427e5c2b5b4ae2d (patch) | |
| tree | 621ab5681f870cfbb5f9ada35620aac51edd6bfb /Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper | |
| parent | 87cd723f8978c59bc4e28593da45d09ebf5d92a2 (diff) | |
crypto: salsa20 - remove Salsa20 stream cipher algorithm
Salsa20 is not used anywhere in the kernel, is not suitable for disk
encryption, and widely considered to have been superseded by ChaCha20.
So let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst index 4e6f504474ac..d56112e2e354 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst @@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ recalculate 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" or "ctr(aes)"). + (such as "cbc(aes)") or a stream cipher (for example "chacha20" + or "ctr(aes)"). The journal contains history of last writes to the block device, an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector numbers |