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docs: dm-integrity: remove reference to ARC4
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ARC4 is no longer considered secure, so it shouldn't be used, even as
just an example.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -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
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