Re: [PATCH 12/38] crypto: drbg - Remove support for CTR_DRBG

From: Stephan Mueller

Date: Mon Apr 20 2026 - 17:01:54 EST


Am Montag, 20. April 2026, 22:56:07 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Eric
Biggers:

Hi Eric,

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 09:54:48PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > > Note that the only way to select it
> >
> > The selection would always be done during compile time for those vendors.
>
> Again, even if someone were to want to do that for some reason, the
> status quo is that it's not supported. That is, currently you can set
> CONFIG_CRYPTO_DRBG_CTR=y, but "stdrng" is still HMAC_DRBG regardless.

Changes to the priorities were applied to their kernels.
>
> - Eric


Ciao
Stephan