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Miller" , Christoph Biedl Subject: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation? Message-ID: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hYAR6xZuukOnsZ1F" Content-Disposition: inline --hYAR6xZuukOnsZ1F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Bugzilla, Christoph Biedl wrote a question on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY description [1]: > The desciption of the CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY kernel option in crypto/Kconfi= g has an incomplete sentence: >=20 > | This RNG does not perform any cryptographic whitening of the generated > | > | See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html >=20 > This was introduced in a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compress= ion/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=3D218458 --=20 An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara --hYAR6xZuukOnsZ1F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQSSYQ6Cy7oyFNCHrUH2uYlJVVFOowUCZcJBjgAKCRD2uYlJVVFO ow6EAQCJoHqhJD+AlrQLLEYQkqyNhWj5+L603+KRtq46AQnYswEAvg4r3SdcmCer GvKsc+stQA1iEsntUUGblTylFpskdwg= =VHpG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hYAR6xZuukOnsZ1F--