chiark / gitweb /
man: add DOI for refereed article on Forward Secure Sealing to journald.conf(5)
authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:40:02 +0000 (19:40 -0500)
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:58:24 +0000 (23:58 -0500)
In journalctl(1), be more explicit about the reference to "Seal=" in
journald.conf(5) and what information can be found there.

man/journalctl.xml
man/journald.conf.xml

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                                 sealing key is stored in the journal
                                 data directory and shall remain on the
                                 host. The verification key should be
                                 sealing key is stored in the journal
                                 data directory and shall remain on the
                                 host. The verification key should be
-                                stored externally. Also see the
+                                stored externally. Refer to the
                                 <option>Seal=</option> option in
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                                 <option>Seal=</option> option in
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                                for details.</para></listitem>
+                                for information on Forward Secure
+                                Sealing and for a link to a refereed
+                                scholarly paper detailing the
+                                cryptographic theory it is based on.
+                                </para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
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                                 by
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s
                                 <option>--setup-keys</option>
                                 by
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s
                                 <option>--setup-keys</option>
-                                command), forward secure sealing (FSS)
+                                command), Forward Secure Sealing (FSS)
                                 for all persistent journal files is
                                 enabled. FSS is based on <ulink
                                 url="https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/397">Seekable
                                 Sequential Key Generators</ulink> by
                                 for all persistent journal files is
                                 enabled. FSS is based on <ulink
                                 url="https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/397">Seekable
                                 Sequential Key Generators</ulink> by
-                                G. A. Marson and B. Poettering and
-                                may be used to protect journal files
-                                from unnoticed
-                                alteration.</para></listitem>
+                                G. A. Marson and B. Poettering
+                                (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40203-6_7)
+                                and may be used to protect journal files
+                                from unnoticed alteration.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
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                         </varlistentry>
 
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