svn commit: r212388 - head/share/man/man4
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 9 21:37:05 UTC 2010
Author: brueffer
Date: Thu Sep 9 21:37:05 2010
New Revision: 212388
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212388
Log:
Some more grammar, wording and mdoc fixes.
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/aesni.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/aesni.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Thu Sep 9 21:32:09 2010 (r212387)
+++ head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Thu Sep 9 21:37:05 2010 (r212388)
@@ -50,20 +50,24 @@ Starting with some models of Core i5/i7,
a new set of instructions called AESNI.
The set of six instructions accelerates the calculation of the key
schedule for key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 of the Advanced
-Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric cipher, and provides hardware
+Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric cipher, and provides a hardware
implementation of the regular and the last encryption and decryption
rounds.
.Pp
The processor capability is reported as AESNI in the Features2 line at boot.
-Driver does not attach on the system that lacks the required CPU capability.
+The
+.Nm
+driver does not attach on systems that lack the required CPU capability.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver registers itself to accelerate AES operations for
.Xr crypto 4 .
-Besides speed, the advantage of using the driver is that the AESNI operation
+Besides speed, the advantage of using the
+.Nm
+driver is that the AESNI operation
is data-independent, thus eliminating some attack vectors based on
-measuring cache use and timings typically present in the table-driven
+measuring cache use and timings typically present in table-driven
implementations.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr crypt 3 ,
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