Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:25:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r215635 - stable/8/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201011211325.oALDPABL058233@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: kib Date: Sun Nov 21 13:25:10 2010 New Revision: 215635 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215635 Log: MFC r212262: Add aesni(4) manpage. MFC r212268: Grammar fixes. MFC r212388 (by brueffer): Some more grammar, wording and mdoc fixes. MFC r212389 (by brueffer): Xref aesni(4). Added: stable/8/share/man/man4/aesni.4 - copied, changed from r212262, head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Modified: stable/8/share/man/man4/Makefile stable/8/share/man/man4/crypto.4 Directory Properties: stable/8/share/man/man4/ (props changed) Modified: stable/8/share/man/man4/Makefile ============================================================================== --- stable/8/share/man/man4/Makefile Sun Nov 21 13:22:05 2010 (r215634) +++ stable/8/share/man/man4/Makefile Sun Nov 21 13:25:10 2010 (r215635) @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ adv.4 \ adw.4 \ ae.4 \ + ${_aesni.4} \ age.4 \ agp.4 \ aha.4 \ @@ -633,6 +634,7 @@ _acpi_panasonic.4=acpi_panasonic.4 _acpi_sony.4= acpi_sony.4 _acpi_toshiba.4=acpi_toshiba.4 _acpi_wmi.4= acpi_wmi.4 +_aesni.4= aesni.4 _aibs.4= aibs.4 _amdsbwd.4= amdsbwd.4 _amdsmb.4= amdsmb.4 Copied and modified: stable/8/share/man/man4/aesni.4 (from r212262, head/share/man/man4/aesni.4) ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Mon Sep 6 20:35:48 2010 (r212262, copy source) +++ stable/8/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Sun Nov 21 13:25:10 2010 (r215635) @@ -47,24 +47,27 @@ aesni_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION Starting with some models of Core i5/i7, Intel processors implement -new set of instructions called AESNI. +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 the 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 the boot. Driver does not attach on the system that lacks the -required CPU capability. +The processor capability is reported as AESNI in the Features2 line at boot. +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, advantage of using the driver is that the AESNI operation -is data-independend, thus eliminating some attack vectors based on the -measuring cache use and timings, typically present in the table-driven +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 table-driven implementations. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr crypt 3 , Modified: stable/8/share/man/man4/crypto.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/8/share/man/man4/crypto.4 Sun Nov 21 13:22:05 2010 (r215634) +++ stable/8/share/man/man4/crypto.4 Sun Nov 21 13:25:10 2010 (r215635) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 3, 2009 +.Dd September 7, 2010 .Dt CRYPTO 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ asymmetric cryptographic features are po crypto access device .El .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr aesni 4 , .Xr glxsb 4 , .Xr hifn 4 , .Xr ipsec 4 ,
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