cvs commit: src/usr.bin/enigma enigma.1

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 14 12:00:53 PDT 2004


Joerg Wunsch <joerg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> joerg       2004/05/14 11:46:16 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/enigma       enigma.1 
>   Log:
>   When I wrote this man page more than 5 years ago, I simply didn't
>   understand the true symmetric nature of Enigma, so my description of
>   ``automatically detects that the input is encrypted'' was simply
>   wrong.  Replace that by a more accurate description of why feeding the
>   ciphertext again into the engine will decrypt it.

You may want to amend it into the 21st century regarding what the 
alternatives are for "real" encryption -- perhaps replace all of the 
mentioned alternatives with openssl(1), or just replace bdes(1)...

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