CRNG acronym

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Hello,

just curious,
what's the official meaning of the "CRNG" acronym (e. g., in [1])?

Some searching suggests that "C[S]RNG"
means "cryptographic[-strength] random number generator".
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/char/random.c
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/691071/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/660452/
[4] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=110247024805208&w=2

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Bob
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