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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2010-09-09 21:37:05 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2010-09-09 21:37:05 +0000
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Some more grammar, wording and mdoc fixes.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/aesni.4 b/share/man/man4/aesni.4
index 995f2b5..0001ca2 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/aesni.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/aesni.4
@@ -50,20 +50,24 @@ Starting with some models of Core i5/i7, Intel processors implement
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 ,
OpenPOWER on IntegriCloud