On 4/14/20 17:22, Alan Somers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 6:15 PM John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org > <mailto:j...@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > Author: jhb > Date: Wed Apr 15 00:14:50 2020 > New Revision: 359945 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359945 > > Log: > Remove support for geli(4) algorithms deprecated in r348206. [snip] > Why remove read-only support? That will make it much harder to convert > old volumes.
Because they uses 64-bit block size and is vulnerable to birthday attacks. We have officially communicated that these algorithms would be gone in 13 last year, with gone_in messages in place, so I think it's fine to remove them as we are not going to keep the code forever. Cheers, _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
