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author | Benjamin Barenblat <bbaren@mit.edu> | 2015-03-14 20:30:48 -0400 |
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committer | Benjamin Barenblat <bbaren@mit.edu> | 2015-03-14 20:30:48 -0400 |
commit | 7e408c8843ec3bb1442482a56f0161d08294a92d (patch) | |
tree | 71cd2ad79aa372facefb9c2073d04cdbfae4adfd /debian/patches/manpage.diff | |
parent | aa22d71b7b51390f85465a628f8842bd5ed982cf (diff) |
manpage: Fix usage of .Bd macro
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-rw-r--r-- | debian/patches/manpage.diff | 81 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 81 deletions
diff --git a/debian/patches/manpage.diff b/debian/patches/manpage.diff deleted file mode 100644 index aa55769..0000000 --- a/debian/patches/manpage.diff +++ /dev/null @@ -1,81 +0,0 @@ -From: Benjamin Barenblat <bbaren@mit.edu> -Subject: Remove Debian-irrelevant data from man page -Forwarded: not-needed - -Remove references to cryptlib from the man page, as Debian builds this package -using OpenSSL. - -Remove recommendation to statically link the binary, as this should’t be a -decision the user has to make. ---- a/secpwgen.1 -+++ b/secpwgen.1 -@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ - .\" (c) 2004-2005 Zeljko Vrba <zvrba@globalnet.hr> -+.\" (c) 2015 Benjamin Barenblat <bbaren@mit.edu> - .\" - .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining - .\" a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ case mlock is used with reduced security - .It - Disabling core-dumps in the event of crash. - .It --Cryptographically strong random number generator (using OpenSSL or cryptlib). -+Cryptographically strong random number generator (using OpenSSL). - The exact method for generation is described in its respective source file. - .El - .Pp -@@ -176,11 +177,6 @@ the following used components: C library - random number generation, the kernel, and, ultimately, the system - administrator (although not a SW component :), a malicious sysadmin can modify - the kernel or system libraries to log somewhere all output of a program). --.Pp --You should build the program as statically linked, if at all possible. There --are numerous ways in which dynamic linking can be used to subvert this --programs' security. Unfortunately, there is no reliable nor portable way to --discover at run-time if the program is statically or dynamically linked. - .Ss OPENSSL NOTES - This program does not take any steps to initialize the entropy pool. OpenSSL - uses the system-provided /dev/[u]random as the source of randomness. -@@ -192,11 +188,6 @@ error then - if you want really secure and unguessable passwords. There are many real-life - examples where the system security was compromised because of poor random - number generators. --.Ss CRYPTLIB NOTES --For maximum security, it is recommended to use cryptlib if at all possible. --Citing its manual, it is designed around a B3 kernel and tries very hard to --protect and sanitize all sensitive data (including locking it in memory if --possible). Also, there are no issues about initializing the entropy pool. - .Sh EXAMPLES - Generate an 4-word enhanced passphrase from the diceware dictionary: - .Nm -@@ -245,11 +236,6 @@ recompiled. - This is a real bug in the program. Report this to the author - along with the exact command-line arguments, the compiler used, - operating system, etc. --.It "ERROR: some garbage left to cryptlib." --This is an indication of the bug in the program. Report this to the author --along with other data described above. Nothing "bad" happened; everything --was properly cleaned by cryptlib on exit. It is just an indication that --some objects were not freed by the program before shutting down cryptlib. - .El - .Sh SEE ALSO - .Xr pwgen 1 , -@@ -269,17 +255,13 @@ some objects were not freed by the progr - .%T "RFC2289: A One-Time Password System" - .Re - .Rs --.%A Peter Gutmann --.%T cryptlib --.%O http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/ --.Re --.Rs - .%T OpenSSL - .%O http://www.openssl.org - .Re - .Sh AUTHORS - The secpwgen program and this manual page were written by - .An Zeljko Vrba Aq zvrba@globalnet.hr . -+Benjamin Barenblat modified it for the Debian project. - .Sh BUGS - The program - .Sy will crash |