Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:36:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: pepper@reppep.com Subject: ports/67859: Language cleanups in tlsmgr.8 (part of postfix) Message-ID: <20040612023642.18CF7100B3@www.reppep.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200406120310.i5C3ANVe093917@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 67859 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Language cleanups in tlsmgr.8 (part of postfix) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 12 03:10:22 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Chris Pepper >Release: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004 root@www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP i386 >Description: Postfix's tlsmgr man page has some awkward and incorrect English. >How-To-Repeat: portinstall postfix; man tlsmgr >Fix: Patch below --- tlsmgr.8.diff begins here --- --- tlsmgr.8 Wed Jun 9 23:36:12 2004 +++ tlsmgr.8.fixed Fri Jun 11 22:33:44 2004 @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ OpenSSL PRNG has a pool size of 8192 bits (= 1024 bytes). The pool is initially seeded at startup from an external source (EGD or /dev/urandom) and additional seed is obtained later during program -run at a configurable period. The exact time of seed query is -using random information and is equally distributed in the range of -[0-\fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR] with a \fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR +run at a configurable interval. The exact time of each successive seed +query is randomly distributed in the range of +[0-\fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR] with \fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR having a default of 1 hour. Tlsmgr can be run chrooted and with dropped privileges, as it will @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ .ad .fi Tlsmgr is not security-sensitive. It only deals with external data -to be fed into the PRNG, the contents is never trusted. The session +to be fed into the PRNG; its content is never trusted. The session cache housekeeping will only remove entries if expired and will never touch the contents of the cached data. .SH DIAGNOSTICS --- tlsmgr.8.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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