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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-09-13 18:45:59 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-09-13 18:45:59 +0000
commit36fccb034c641d4a8994baf1224221defe46c153 (patch)
tree2da60f5fed5d6a539cfdd309b5e28a962e4855b2 /sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
parentfc55c3a09258c5ecacf8719b9f114659ff5cac5c (diff)
various tweaks, based on a diff from Chris Palmer;
ok marco
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8 b/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
index a29701baa43..a872a25790b 100644
--- a/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
+++ b/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bioctl.8,v 1.80 2009/12/31 14:00:45 jsing Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bioctl.8,v 1.81 2010/09/13 18:45:58 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Marco Peereboom
.\"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 31 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 13 2010 $
.Dt BIOCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -119,7 +119,9 @@ is currently marked
promote it to being a
.Dq Hot Spare .
.It Fl h
-Where necessary, produce "human-readable" output.
+Where necessary, produce
+.Dq human-readable
+output.
Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte,
Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte in order to reduce the number of
digits to four or less.
@@ -223,7 +225,7 @@ This file must be root owned and have 0600 permissions.
It cannot be used during the initial creation of the crypto volume.
.It Fl r Ar rounds
When creating an encrypted volume, specifies the number of iterations of
-the algorithm used to convert a passphrase into a key.
+the PBKDF2 algorithm used to convert a passphrase into a key.
Higher iteration counts take more time, but offer more resistance to key
guessing attacks.
The minimum is 1000 rounds and the default is 8192.
@@ -245,7 +247,7 @@ volume:
.Ed
.Pp
.Nm
-will ask for a passphrase, that will be needed to unlock the encrypted
+will ask for a passphrase, which will be needed to unlock the encrypted
disk.
After creating a newly encrypted disk, the first megabyte of it should be
zeroed, so tools like
@@ -267,6 +269,11 @@ For example:
.Xr bio 4 ,
.Xr scsi 4 ,
.Xr softraid 4
+.Rs
+.%R RFC 2898
+.%T "PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.0"
+.%D 2000
+.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
@@ -278,4 +285,4 @@ The
interface was written by
.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .
.Sh CAVEATS
-Use of the crypto & RAID 4/5 disciplines are currently considered experimental.
+Use of the CRYPTO & RAID 4/5 disciplines are currently considered experimental.