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Miscellaneous small man page fixes (mostly typos)
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@ -132,9 +132,9 @@ tampering, by preventing an attacker from disabling MACs in the config file.
=item B<--reverse>
Normally B<EncFS> 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<EncFS> 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<New in 1.1>. In previous versions of B<EncFS>, 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.

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@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ B<encfs> for complete details.
=head1 AUTHORS
EncFS was written by Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>.
B<EncFS> was written by B<< Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com> >>.
=head1 SEE ALSO