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crypto: doc - remove references to ARC4

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arc4 is no longer considered secure, so it shouldn't be used, even as
just an example.  Mention serpent and chacha20 instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Eric Biggers 2019-12-06 20:19:37 -08:00 committed by Herbert Xu
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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ follows:
Single-Block Symmetric Ciphers [CIPHER]
---------------------------------------
Example of transformations: aes, arc4, ...
Example of transformations: aes, serpent, ...
This section describes the simplest of all transformation
implementations, that being the CIPHER type used for symmetric ciphers.
@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ is also valid:
Multi-Block Ciphers
-------------------
Example of transformations: cbc(aes), ecb(arc4), ...
Example of transformations: cbc(aes), chacha20, ...
This section describes the multi-block cipher transformation
implementations. The multi-block ciphers are used for transformations