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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2020-08-31 18:16:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2020-09-11 07:39:16 +0300 |
| commit | 9ace6771831017ce75a2bdf03c284b686dd39dba (patch) | |
| tree | f7000d0662e141429910ca15d91575bc075a4b14 /crypto/Kconfig | |
| parent | 274290ed98c55a9c5691497567e24463a7a91da4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9ace6771831017ce75a2bdf03c284b686dd39dba.tar.xz | |
crypto: arc4 - mark ecb(arc4) skcipher as obsolete
Cryptographic algorithms may have a lifespan that is significantly
shorter than Linux's, and so we need to start phasing out algorithms
that are known to be broken, and are no longer fit for general use.
RC4 (or arc4) is a good example here: there are a few areas where its
use is still somewhat acceptable, e.g., for interoperability with legacy
wifi hardware that can only use WEP or TKIP data encryption, but that
should not imply that, for instance, use of RC4 based EAP-TLS by the WPA
supplicant for negotiating TKIP keys is equally acceptable, or that RC4
should remain available as a general purpose cryptographic transform for
all in-kernel and user space clients.
Now that all in-kernel users that need to retain support have moved to
the arc4 library interface, and the known users of ecb(arc4) via the
socket API (iwd [0] and libell [1][2]) have been updated to switch to a
local implementation, we can take the next step, and mark the ecb(arc4)
skcipher as obsolete, and only provide it if the socket API is enabled in
the first place, as well as provide the option to disable all algorithms
that have been marked as obsolete.
[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/wireless/iwd.git/commit/?id=1db8a85a60c64523
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/ell/ell.git/commit/?id=53482ce421b727c2
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/ell/ell.git/commit/?id=7f6a137809d42f6b
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 1b57419fa2e7..e85d8a059489 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -1199,6 +1199,7 @@ config CRYPTO_ANUBIS config CRYPTO_ARC4 tristate "ARC4 cipher algorithm" + depends on CRYPTO_USER_API_ENABLE_OBSOLETE select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER select CRYPTO_LIB_ARC4 help @@ -1881,6 +1882,15 @@ config CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD This option enables the user-spaces interface for AEAD cipher algorithms. +config CRYPTO_USER_API_ENABLE_OBSOLETE + bool "Enable obsolete cryptographic algorithms for userspace" + depends on CRYPTO_USER_API + default y + help + Allow obsolete cryptographic algorithms to be selected that have + already been phased out from internal use by the kernel, and are + only useful for userspace clients that still rely on them. + config CRYPTO_STATS bool "Crypto usage statistics for User-space" depends on CRYPTO_USER |