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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: 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: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 21:26:27 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZcJBk_NQvLzwzprn@archie.me> (raw)

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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/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

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             reply	other threads:[~2024-02-06 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-06 14:26 Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2024-02-17 16:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2024-02-18  5:32   ` Bagas Sanjaya

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