Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:48:13 -0700 From: Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r359945 - in head: lib/geom/eli sys/geom/eli Message-ID: <8a2a2c4e-1ad3-0f0d-24e5-a0d38046aef8@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2hm4LeAtbb3vKzOtVeuiNPH434YCkz68U2mYbMsT-=ROg@mail.gmail.com> References: <202004150014.03F0EpQt039761@repo.freebsd.org> <CAOtMX2hm4LeAtbb3vKzOtVeuiNPH434YCkz68U2mYbMsT-=ROg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/14/20 17:22, Alan Somers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 6:15 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org > <mailto:jhb@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,
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