Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2013 18:57:35 -0500 | From | Greg Price <> | Subject | [PATCH 01/11] random: fix typos / spelling errors in comments |
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Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> --- drivers/char/random.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 7a744d3..ef3e15b 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -348,12 +348,12 @@ static struct poolinfo { /* * For the purposes of better mixing, we use the CRC-32 polynomial as - * well to make a twisted Generalized Feedback Shift Reigster + * well to make a twisted Generalized Feedback Shift Register * * (See M. Matsumoto & Y. Kurita, 1992. Twisted GFSR generators. ACM * Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 2(3):179-194. * Also see M. Matsumoto & Y. Kurita, 1994. Twisted GFSR generators - * II. ACM Transactions on Mdeling and Computer Simulation 4:254-266) + * II. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 4:254-266) * * Thanks to Colin Plumb for suggesting this. * @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static struct poolinfo { * modulo the generator polymnomial. Now, for random primitive polynomials, * this is a universal class of hash functions, meaning that the chance * of a collision is limited by the attacker's knowledge of the generator - * polynomail, so if it is chosen at random, an attacker can never force + * polynomial, so if it is chosen at random, an attacker can never force * a collision. Here, we use a fixed polynomial, but we *can* assume that * ###--> it is unknown to the processes generating the input entropy. <-### * Because of this important property, this is a good, collision-resistant @@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ static void extract_buf(struct entropy_store *r, __u8 *out) hash.w[2] ^= rol32(hash.w[2], 16); /* - * If we have a architectural hardware random number + * If we have an architectural hardware random number * generator, mix that in, too. */ for (i = 0; i < LONGS(EXTRACT_SIZE); i++) { -- 1.8.3.2
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