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Remove ansi_cprng, since it's obsolete and unused, as confirmed at https://lore.kernel.org/r/aQxpnckYMgAAOLpZ@gondor.apana.org.au/ This was originally added in 2008, apparently as a FIPS approved random number generator. Whether this has ever belonged upstream is questionable. Either way, ansi_cprng is no longer usable for this purpose, since it's been superseded by the more modern algorithms in crypto/drbg.c, and FIPS itself no longer allows it. (NIST SP 800-131A Rev 1 (2015) says that RNGs based on ANSI X9.31 will be disallowed after 2015. NIST SP 800-131A Rev 2 (2019) confirms they are now disallowed.) Therefore, there is no reason to keep it around. Suggested-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>