From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B91E01D681; Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708189011; cv=none; b=t6OYMLcJZa4/eeHC2qchsmdcHpOS9zTB4ZRU+jbP5uPFlkDjZ/RswGFBfHl+MBU/bW1fdAwZAN4CZYL81eXZ0ceZdG6H8ZSmIdowcPDvollizqEruQs2+iuCKKWSscWtCh76Gq/1+gPPsl8Q8cAPeE35A4VNImeZfoeX8gcjpeA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708189011; c=relaxed/simple; bh=vtmXWJQTR268I6elGXGKji5aKARKWQW9ZTVxDl8jpeU=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=oC/sBT+QXFP9X7GSJkxgWCuYhOzMvaOFMrlIorTIm6rG9ZhaHzm4rM0CyqHoFr7eclnf8H+LBUzuhJejg9pu+6leKUTs27pnWzsQgxVxHniqCdVWRQDBWdsd7HWsWeTDVM2/eYjK97cGBwELhVngnbctdNaFnvdX2kUh96fkmmo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=i5lDGlZv; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="i5lDGlZv" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=qd91KUgzbRfv5CXyfjyN+hHquWgLzp7zTWKp3UEEcTg=; b=i5lDGlZv5FdNZ1Ckf6vz+JUgQS BB+GB8c8sugSGZHevFFC9r7kp4+bqTQYD7U6NJxjdXMIJ7xqF/2n16yS1ss/4n8RZSFf+VsBOfBgX b2cVpEI18XZ97m2+oyc6hdyVv513B6abddzVsV/zujha6xH5+fpdgNmz4cwmZE7jtnxds6tgm74RD iVhCr4LQAzBQ0qpsnVAFZ6YYp6jk6cZkB5Bn3xY2JYPECjtn9b9rM5PTGkL2C4Y9zLDWtKmrth40u yUX4zMa5etynd0U8zD29W/tBgYpD+Ho9pJnUWO0xR31D6rSg1uUqRzm2hxH1Sdl5BWnPSJmznS4/L v2DnwhBA==; Received: from [50.53.50.0] (helo=[192.168.254.15]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1rbNzd-000000062mg-0xap; Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:56:49 +0000 Message-ID: <8992c7f0-b0b1-4bbb-b5a3-2906159e2e24@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:56:48 -0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation? Content-Language: en-US To: Bagas Sanjaya , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Crypto Cc: Robert Elliott , Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , Christoph Biedl References: From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/6/24 06:26, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hi, > > On Bugzilla, Christoph Biedl > 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