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From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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> It's fine for testing purposes, leave it in.

absolutely.  it could also be needed for interoperability, or many other
valid uses that might not depend on its sheer strength as a cipher.

"but you shouldn't be interoperating with things that are insecure!"

blah blah blah.  that is not the kernel's decision to make.  meaningful
security is defined by much more than context-free assertions.  warn
against its naive use, avoid it being a default, but allow the clued to
use it easily when it makes sense.

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