From: Jason Ish <jason.ish@oisf.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 18:47:13 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: doc/userguide: document --disable-hashing
X-Git-Tag: suricata-7.0.0-beta1~1894
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4b9af8d2cebef97a4c7c4df5c886b572cada7df7;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git

doc/userguide: document --disable-hashing
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diff --git a/doc/userguide/partials/options.rst b/doc/userguide/partials/options.rst
index ef3b9f6803..bb163e3c93 100644
--- a/doc/userguide/partials/options.rst
+++ b/doc/userguide/partials/options.rst
@@ -172,6 +172,14 @@
 
    Disable the detection engine.
 
+.. option:: --disable-hashing
+
+   Disable support for hash algorithms such as md5, sha1 and sha256.
+
+   By default hashing is enabled. Disabling hashing will also disable some
+   Suricata features such as the filestore, ja3, and rule keywords that use hash
+   algorithms.
+
 .. Information options.
    
 .. option:: --dump-config