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Subject: Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?
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To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
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Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>, Herbert Xu
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On 2/6/24 06:26, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> 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/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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#Randy