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Eric Biggers
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commit7811ec9e97upstream. Remove crypto4xx_rng, as it is insecure and unused: - It has only a 64-bit security strength, which is highly inadequate. This can be seen by the fact that crypto4xx_hw_init() seeds it with only 64 bits of entropy, and the fact that the original commit mentions that it implements ANSI X9.17 Annex C. Another issue was that this driver didn't implement the crypto_rng API correctly, as crypto4xx_prng_generate() didn't return 0 on success. - No user of this code is known. It's usable only theoretically via the "rng" algorithm type of AF_ALG. But userspace actually just uses the actual Linux RNG (/dev/random etc) instead. And rng_algs don't contribute entropy to the actual Linux RNG either. (This may have been confused with hwrng, which does contribute entropy.) Fixes:d072bfa488("crypto: crypto4xx - add prng crypto support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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