From e08d13cf837ac74b4c6088539a00600ac6677ff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John-Mark Gurney Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 01:55:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more word smithing wrt the crd_inject field... We've already defined IV earlier, so no need to expand it a second time here... --- share/man/man9/crypto.9 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man9/crypto.9 b/share/man/man9/crypto.9 index 3c4dae3e5330..d7bee0175d9b 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/crypto.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/crypto.9 @@ -356,10 +356,12 @@ How many bytes, after .Va crd_skip , should be processed. .It Va crd_inject -Offset from the beginning of the buffer to insert any results. -For encryption algorithms, this is where the initialization vector -(IV) will be inserted when encrypting or where it can be found when -decrypting (subject to +The +.Va crd_inject +field specifies an offset in bytes from the beginning of the buffer. +For encryption algorithms, this may be where the IV will be inserted +when encrypting or where the IV may be found for +decryption (subject to .Va crd_flags ) . For MAC algorithms, this is where the result of the keyed hash will be inserted. @@ -393,7 +395,7 @@ provided by the consumer in the field. Otherwise, for encryption operations the IV is provided for by the driver used to perform the operation, whereas for decryption -operations it is pointed to by the +operations the offset of the IV is provided by the .Va crd_inject field. This flag is typically used when the IV is calculated