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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Move wayward clause to where it belongs and m...
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/87e974993a20
branches: trunk
changeset: 1012985:87e974993a20
user: riastradh <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Mon Aug 17 17:18:02 2020 +0000
description:
Move wayward clause to where it belongs and makes sense.
Note how blowfish-cbc chooses the CBC IV.
diffstat:
share/man/man4/cgd.4 | 13 +++++++++----
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diffs (41 lines):
diff -r 41838833ac28 -r 87e974993a20 share/man/man4/cgd.4
--- a/share/man/man4/cgd.4 Mon Aug 17 16:26:03 2020 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/cgd.4 Mon Aug 17 17:18:02 2020 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: cgd.4,v 1.23 2020/08/17 00:43:15 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: cgd.4,v 1.24 2020/08/17 17:18:02 riastradh Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -131,8 +131,7 @@
initialization vector for each disk sector is chosen to be the
encryption under
.Tn 3DES
-of the little-endian encoding of the disk sector number, which has no
-impact on security but reduces performance.
+of the little-endian encoding of the disk sector number.
.Pp
Note: Internally, the
.Sq parity bits
@@ -146,6 +145,11 @@
Blowfish in
.Tn CBC
mode.
+The
+.Tn CBC
+initialization vector for each disk sector is chosen to be the
+encryption under Blowfish of the little-endian encoding of the disk
+sector number.
It is strongly encouraged that keys be at least 128 bits long.
There are no performance advantages of using shorter keys.
The default key length is 128 bits.
@@ -165,7 +169,8 @@
initialization vector was chosen to be the
.Em eight-fold
encryption under the block cipher of the little-endian encoding of the
-disk sector number.
+disk sector number, which has no impact on security but reduces
+performance.
For compatibility with such disks, the
.Sq IV method
must be set to
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