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| author | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-05-14 18:46:16 +0000 |
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| committer | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-05-14 18:46:16 +0000 |
| commit | af9cca8aed0e748ec08ac1487c132923b7af97be (patch) | |
| tree | abbed66e9db4aab2512582d4bffb2d005ec8886c /usr.bin/enigma | |
| parent | c882857ce95a975955fedb7ef1b28d979b488a8c (diff) | |
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When I wrote this man page more than 5 years ago, I simply didn't
understand the true symmetric nature of Enigma, so my description of
``automatically detects that the input is encrypted'' was simply
wrong. Replace that by a more accurate description of why feeding the
ciphertext again into the engine will decrypt it.
MFC after: 1 week
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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/enigma/enigma.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/enigma/enigma.1 b/usr.bin/enigma/enigma.1 index a72b22e..a2d0368 100644 --- a/usr.bin/enigma/enigma.1 +++ b/usr.bin/enigma/enigma.1 @@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ simple encryption program, working on a .Dq secret-key basis. It operates as a filter, i. e. it encrypts or decrypts a stream of data from standard input, and writes the result to standard -output. It automatically detects whether the input data stream is -already encrypted, and switches into decryption mode in this case. +output. +Since its operation is fully symmetrical, feeding the encrypted data +stream again through the engine (using the same secret key) will +decrypt it. .Pp There are several ways to provide the secret key to the program. By default, the program prompts the user on the controlling terminal for |
