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| author | Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> | 2024-02-17 08:55:13 -0800 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2024-02-24 08:41:20 +0800 |
| commit | e63df1ec9a16dd9e13e9068243e64876de06f795 (patch) | |
| tree | 01eb33712ef306e4a54e71bb73e7fdbf57a00bb4 /crypto | |
| parent | ed3d95fe788dec7c23bb20b41f8af47cbce04715 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e63df1ec9a16dd9e13e9068243e64876de06f795.tar.gz lwn-e63df1ec9a16dd9e13e9068243e64876de06f795.zip | |
crypto: jitter - fix CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY help text
Correct various small problems in the help text:
a. change 2 spaces to ", "
b. finish an incomplete sentence
c. change non-working URL to working URL
Fixes: a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compression/RNG entries")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218458
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index 7d156c75f15f..44661c2e30ca 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -1269,10 +1269,11 @@ config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY A non-physical non-deterministic ("true") RNG (e.g., an entropy source compliant with NIST SP800-90B) intended to provide a seed to a - deterministic RNG (e.g. per NIST SP800-90C). + deterministic RNG (e.g., per NIST SP800-90C). This RNG does not perform any cryptographic whitening of the generated + random numbers. - See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html + See https://www.chronox.de/jent/ if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY if CRYPTO_FIPS && EXPERT |