From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: remove Speck
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 08:57:17 +0200
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On 7 August 2018 at 08:22, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> These are unused, undesired, and have never actually been used by
> anybody. The original authors of this code have changed their mind about
> its inclusion. While originally proposed for disk encryption on low-end
> devices, the idea was discarded [1] in favor of something else before
> that could really get going. Therefore, this patch removes Speck.
>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=153359499015659
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>