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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 21:26:27 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Subject: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?
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Hi,

On Bugzilla,  Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
wrote a question on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY description [1]:

> The desciption of the CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY kernel option in crypto/Kconfi=
g has an incomplete sentence:
>=20
> | This RNG does not perform any cryptographic whitening of the generated
> |
> | See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html
>=20
> This was introduced in a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compress=
ion/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=3D218458

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