linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?

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Message-ID: <ZdGWVVIZx8uIu83K@archie.me>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:32:05 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@....com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@...chmal.in-ulm.de>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:56:48AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/6/24 06:26, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Bugzilla,  Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@...chmal.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.
> 

OK, thanks!

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