Bug 218458

Summary: Incomplete description of CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY
Product: Linux Reporter: Christoph Biedl (bugzilla.kernel.bpeb)
Component: KernelAssignee: Virtual assignee for kernel bugs (linux-kernel)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: low CC: davem, herbert, rdunlap
Priority: P3    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 6.8-rc3 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:

Description Christoph Biedl 2024-02-04 20:54:23 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Randy Dunlap 2024-02-17 16:58:26 UTC 
Corrections patch posted here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240217165513.24061-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/T/#u