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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:32:05 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
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	Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:56:48AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On 2/6/24 06:26, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > On Bugzilla,  Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
> > wrote a question on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY description [1]:
> >=20
> >> The desciption of the CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY kernel option in crypto/Kco=
nfig has an incomplete sentence:
> >>
> >> | This RNG does not perform any cryptographic whitening of the generat=
ed
> >> |
> >> | See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html
> >>
> >> This was introduced in a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compr=
ession/RNG entries") - please fix when convenient.
> >=20
> > Can you explain why the Kconfig description says so?
> >=20
> > Thanks.
> >=20
> > [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D218458
> >=20
>=20
> Hi,
> Fixup patch has been posted.
> Thanks for the report.
>=20
> Subject: should be CRYPTO_JITTERENTRY.
>=20

OK, thanks!

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