svn commit: r359945 - in head: lib/geom/eli sys/geom/eli

[Xin Li]

On 4/14/20 17:22, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 6:15 PM John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org
> <mailto:jhb at 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,