svn commit: r215635 - stable/8/share/man/man4
Konstantin Belousov
kib at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 21 13:25:10 UTC 2010
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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