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From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 05:42:11AM +1000, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> You are right. The reason that arc4 and friend were moved into cifs
> was because the crypto guys told us "we will delete these algorithms
> from the crypto library"

This was suggested for md4 but not for arc4.  arc4 still has multiple users in
the kernel, so having it as a library makes sense.

- Eric