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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>
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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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