Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:37:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r212388 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201009092137.o89Lb5Jn035979@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: brueffer Date: Thu Sep 9 21:37:05 2010 New Revision: 212388 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212388 Log: Some more grammar, wording and mdoc fixes. Modified: head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Thu Sep 9 21:32:09 2010 (r212387) +++ head/share/man/man4/aesni.4 Thu Sep 9 21:37:05 2010 (r212388) @@ -50,20 +50,24 @@ Starting with some models of Core i5/i7, 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 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 boot. -Driver does not attach on the system that lacks the required CPU capability. +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, the advantage of using the driver is that the AESNI operation +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 the table-driven +measuring cache use and timings typically present in table-driven implementations. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr crypt 3 ,
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