From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Crypto <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
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: Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:56:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8992c7f0-b0b1-4bbb-b5a3-2906159e2e24@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZcJBk_NQvLzwzprn@archie.me>
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.
--
#Randy
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2024-02-06 14:26 Bagas Sanjaya
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