2024-02-06 14:27:00

by Bagas Sanjaya

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Subject: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?

Hi,

On Bugzilla, Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>
wrote a question on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY description [1]:

> The desciption of the CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY kernel option in crypto/Kconfig has an incomplete sentence:
>
> | This RNG does not perform any cryptographic whitening of the generated
> |
> | See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html
>
> This was introduced in a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compression/RNG entries") - please fix when convenient.

Can you explain why the Kconfig description says so?

Thanks.

[1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218458

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2024-02-17 16:56:58

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?



On 2/6/24 06:26, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Bugzilla, Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>
> wrote a question on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY description [1]:
>
>> The desciption of the CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY kernel option in crypto/Kconfig has an incomplete sentence:
>>
>> | This RNG does not perform any cryptographic whitening of the generated
>> |
>> | See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html
>>
>> This was introduced in a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compression/RNG entries") - please fix when convenient.
>
> Can you explain why the Kconfig description says so?
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218458
>

Hi,
Fixup patch has been posted.
Thanks for the report.

Subject: should be CRYPTO_JITTERENTRY.

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2024-02-18 05:32:23

by Bagas Sanjaya

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Subject: Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:56:48AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>
> On 2/6/24 06:26, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Bugzilla, Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>
> > wrote a question on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY description [1]:
> >
> >> The desciption of the CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY kernel option in crypto/Kconfig has an incomplete sentence:
> >>
> >> | This RNG does not perform any cryptographic whitening of the generated
> >> |
> >> | See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html
> >>
> >> This was introduced in a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compression/RNG entries") - please fix when convenient.
> >
> > Can you explain why the Kconfig description says so?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218458
> >
>
> Hi,
> Fixup patch has been posted.
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Subject: should be CRYPTO_JITTERENTRY.
>

OK, thanks!

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