Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?

Randy Dunlap
2024-02-17T16:56:49Z

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.

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