Bug 218458 - Incomplete description of CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY
Summary: Incomplete description of CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P3 low
Assignee: Virtual assignee for kernel bugs
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Reported: 2024-02-04 20:54 UTC by Christoph Biedl
Modified: 2024-02-17 16:58 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 6.8-rc3
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Regression: Yes
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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
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| 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
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