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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2021-02-01 19:02:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2021-02-10 17:55:56 +1100 |
| commit | 784506a1df57737fc8460fd644b30ac8fecaedf0 (patch) | |
| tree | ddf5a0c08b5b8f0e7e7bf97088b06e6cf8d16391 /crypto/Kconfig | |
| parent | e1b2d980f03b833442768c1987d5ad0b9a58cfe7 (diff) | |
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crypto: serpent - get rid of obsolete tnepres variant
It is not trivial to trace back why exactly the tnepres variant of
serpent was added ~17 years ago - Google searches come up mostly empty,
but it seems to be related with the 'kerneli' version, which was based
on an incorrect interpretation of the serpent spec.
In other words, nobody is likely to care anymore today, so let's get rid
of it.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 9779c7f7531f..15c9c28d9f53 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -1460,8 +1460,7 @@ config CRYPTO_SERPENT Serpent cipher algorithm, by Anderson, Biham & Knudsen. Keys are allowed to be from 0 to 256 bits in length, in steps - of 8 bits. Also includes the 'Tnepres' algorithm, a reversed - variant of Serpent for compatibility with old kerneli.org code. + of 8 bits. See also: <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html> |