CONFIG_JITTERENTROPY needs more explanation?

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Hi,

On Bugzilla,  Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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

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