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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 authored and Herbert Xu committed Dec 11, 2019
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Single-Block Symmetric Ciphers [CIPHER]
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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.
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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
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