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authorTheo Buehler <tb@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-11-18 07:28:35 +0000
committerTheo Buehler <tb@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-11-18 07:28:35 +0000
commita13e8c26c656a5a732daa4c74996b93339966afd (patch)
treedd8f6930b060c9b5a7e630b24b1f9fc2fc7e2430 /lib/libcrypto/man
parentee54782dc5bb87722d1f8062af890016face480e (diff)
group -> field
discussed with schwarze
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcrypto/man')
-rw-r--r--lib/libcrypto/man/BN_GF2m_add.310
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_GF2m_add.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_GF2m_add.3
index 693d737282a..170a7df18ac 100644
--- a/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_GF2m_add.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_GF2m_add.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: BN_GF2m_add.3,v 1.2 2022/11/18 07:27:31 tb Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: BN_GF2m_add.3,v 1.3 2022/11/18 07:28:34 tb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2022 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ In particular, if
and
.Fa b
are elements of the same representation
-of the same $roman GF left ( 2 sup m right )$ group,
-the sum of both in that representation of that group is computed
+of the same $roman GF left ( 2 sup m right )$ field,
+the sum of both in that representation of that field is computed
.Po
$r = a + b$
.Pc .
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ is an alias for
.Xr BN_ucmp 3 .
Despite its name, it does not attempt to find out whether the two
polynomials belong to the same congruence class with respect to some
-Galois group.
+Galois field.
.Pp
.Fn BN_GF2m_mod_arr
and its wrapper
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ and place the result into
$r = sqrt a ( roman mod p )$
.Pc .
This works because of the identity $a sup {2 sup m} = a$
-which holds for all group elements $a$.
+which holds for all field elements $a$.
.Pp
.Fn BN_GF2m_mod_solve_quad_arr
and its wrapper