From 8d7ce724c9967b976fddfabd985fdc7606e47176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:24:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Miscellaneous small man page fixes (mostly typos) --- encfs/encfs.pod | 14 +++++++------- encfs/encfsctl.pod | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/encfs/encfs.pod b/encfs/encfs.pod index ac39faa..0d4085c 100644 --- a/encfs/encfs.pod +++ b/encfs/encfs.pod @@ -132,9 +132,9 @@ tampering, by preventing an attacker from disabling MACs in the config file. =item B<--reverse> -Normally B provides a plaintext view of data on demand. Normally it -stores enciphered data and displays plaintext data. With B<--reverse> it takes -as source plaintext data and produces enciphered data on-demand. This can be +Normally B provides a plaintext view of data on demand: it stores +enciphered data and displays plaintext data. With B<--reverse> it takes as +source plaintext data and produces enciphered data on-demand. This can be useful for creating remote encrypted backups, where you do not wish to keep the local files unencrypted. @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ be very short in the encoded form, where as block encoded filenames are always rounded up to the block size of the encryption cipher (8 bytes for Blowfish and 16 bytes for AES). -The advantage of block encoding mode is that filename lenths all come out as a +The advantage of block encoding mode is that filename lengths all come out as a multiple of the cipher block size. This means that someone looking at your encrypted data can't tell as much about the length of your filenames. It is on by default, as it takes a similar amount of time to using the stream cipher. @@ -467,12 +467,12 @@ rename will fail. B. In previous versions of B, each file was encoded in the same way. Each block in a file has always had its own initialization vector, -but in a deterministic way so that block N in one file is encoded in the same -was as block N in another file. That made it possible for someone to tell if +but in a deterministic way, so that block N in one file was encoded in the same +way as block N in another file. That made it possible for someone to tell if two files were identical (or parts of the file were identical) by comparing the encoded data. -With per-file initialization vectors, each file gets its own 64bit random +With per-file initialization vectors, each file gets its own 64-bit random initialization vector, so that each file is encrypted in a different way. This option is enabled by default. diff --git a/encfs/encfsctl.pod b/encfs/encfsctl.pod index 6d0a6bf..e0b1e24 100644 --- a/encfs/encfsctl.pod +++ b/encfs/encfsctl.pod @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ B for complete details. =head1 AUTHORS -EncFS was written by Valient Gough . +B was written by B<< Valient Gough >>. =head1 SEE ALSO