From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>, John Sanpe <sanpeqf@gmail.com>,
stfrench@microsoft.com, linkinjeon@kernel.org, pc@manguebit.com,
sprasad@microsoft.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
llvm@lists.linux.dev, oe-kbuild-all@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical <samba-technical@lists.samba.org>,
Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/smb: using crypto lib instead cifs_arc4
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 11:33:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231105193303.GA91123@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN05THRzP6uFyza90kBy5Ku8yGKMi2K5VYX1TJsjbvQrLfAEiw@mail.gmail.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-05 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-22 18:39 [PATCH] fs/smb: using crypto lib instead cifs_arc4 John Sanpe
2023-10-22 19:38 ` Steve French
2023-10-22 19:40 ` Steve French
2023-10-22 19:42 ` ronnie sahlberg
2023-11-05 19:33 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
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