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Retire obsolete crypto #141

Open ardbiesheuvel opened 3 years ago

ardbiesheuvel commented 3 years ago

There is an embarrassingly long tail of support for obsolete crypto in Linux (MD4!!), which is sometimes hard to isolate and remove, given that software crypto is also exposed to user space via a syscall interface (AF_ALG)

Note that MD4 really takes the cake here: it was already found to be broken in 1991 (which was the year Linus first started working on Linux), but it is still used today in SMB authentication (although not as a critical cryptographic component [supposedly])