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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-07-26 12:45:54 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-07-26 12:45:54 +0000
commit69b4c090f9fd8df07bb74bd21ad8bffdd44c94f3 (patch)
treea4c1d6bc8a0258cf96def0f66e55b8527e22fde3 /lib/libc
parent855fd31f87c565d6cb9b55b11e31ea86adf77e70 (diff)
better macros;
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/crypt/blowfish.312
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/blowfish.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/blowfish.3
index dd9d9fe17e9..e3a3da04fa3 100644
--- a/lib/libc/crypt/blowfish.3
+++ b/lib/libc/crypt/blowfish.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: blowfish.3,v 1.16 2006/07/26 12:43:02 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: blowfish.3,v 1.17 2006/07/26 12:45:53 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
.Ft void
.Fn blf_cbc_decrypt "blf_ctx *state" "u_int8_t *iv" "u_int8_t *data" "u_int32_t datalen"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Pa Blowfish
+.Em Blowfish
is a fast unpatented block cipher designed by Bruce Schneier.
It basically consists of a 16-round Feistel network.
The block size is 64 bits and the maximum key size is 448 bits.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ is the initialized state derived from
.Fn blf_key .
The stream of 32-bit words is encrypted in Electronic Codebook
Mode (ECB) and
-.Pa blocks
+.Fa blocks
is the number of 64-bit blocks in the stream.
.Fn blf_dec
is used for decrypting Blowfish encrypted blocks.
@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ and
are used for encrypting and decrypting octet streams in
Cipherblock Chaining Mode (CBC).
For these functions
-.Pa datalen
+.Fa datalen
specifies the number of octets of data to encrypt or decrypt.
It must be a multiple of 8 (64-bit block).
The initialisation vector
-.Pa iv
+.Fa iv
points to an 8-byte buffer.
.Pp
The functions
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The functions
and
.Fn Blowfish_decipher
are used for customization of the
-.Pa Blowfish
+.Em Blowfish
cipher, e.g., for the blowfish password hashing function.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr passwd 1 ,