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authorHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2019-04-11 13:01:47 +0200
committerHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2019-04-11 13:01:47 +0200
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Merge branch 'hans/crypto/cuddle_docs'
* hans/crypto/cuddle_docs: crypto: Doc review comments
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diff --git a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
index 14efc5c6f6..db53eed738 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
+++ b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
@@ -671,11 +671,12 @@
<fsummary>Initializes a series of encryptions or decryptions</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Part of the <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">new API</seealso>.
- Initializes a series of encryptions or decryptions.
+ Initializes a series of encryptions or decryptions and creates an internal state
+ with a reference that is returned.
The actual encryption or decryption is done by
<seealso marker="crypto#crypto_update/2">crypto_update/2</seealso>.
</p>
- <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c>.
+ <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c>. For decryption, set it to <c>false</c>.
</p>
<p>See <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">examples in the User's Guide.</seealso>
</p>
@@ -683,15 +684,17 @@
</func>
<func>
- <name name="crypto_init_dyn_iv" arity="3" since="OTP 22.0"/>
- <fsummary>Initializes a series of encryptions or decryptions where the IV is provided later</fsummary>
+ <name name="crypto_update" arity="2" since="OTP 22.0"/>
+ <fsummary>Do an actual crypto operation on a part of the full text</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Part of the <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">new API</seealso>.
- Initializes a series of encryptions or decryptions where the IV is provided later.
- The actual encryption or decryption is done by
- <seealso marker="crypto#crypto_update_dyn_iv/3">crypto_update_dyn_iv/3</seealso>.
- </p>
- <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c>.
+ It does an actual crypto operation on a part of the full text. If the part is less
+ than a number of full blocks, only the full blocks (possibly none) are encrypted
+ or decrypted and the remaining bytes are saved to the next <c>crypto_update</c> operation.
+ The <c>State</c> should be created with
+ <seealso marker="crypto#crypto_init/3">crypto_init/3</seealso>
+ or
+ <seealso marker="crypto#crypto_init/4">crypto_init/4</seealso>.
</p>
<p>See <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">examples in the User's Guide.</seealso>
</p>
@@ -699,15 +702,15 @@
</func>
<func>
- <name name="crypto_update" arity="2" since="OTP 22.0"/>
- <fsummary>Do an actual crypto operation on a part of the full text</fsummary>
+ <name name="crypto_init_dyn_iv" arity="3" since="OTP 22.0"/>
+ <fsummary>Initializes a series of encryptions or decryptions where the IV is provided later</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Part of the <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">new API</seealso>.
- Do an actual crypto operation on a part of the full text.
- The <c>State</c> should be created with
- <seealso marker="crypto#crypto_init/3">crypto_init/3</seealso>
- or
- <seealso marker="crypto#crypto_init/4">crypto_init/4</seealso>.
+ Initializes a series of encryptions or decryptions where the IV is provided later.
+ The actual encryption or decryption is done by
+ <seealso marker="crypto#crypto_update_dyn_iv/3">crypto_update_dyn_iv/3</seealso>.
+ </p>
+ <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c>. For decryption, set it to <c>false</c>.
</p>
<p>See <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">examples in the User's Guide.</seealso>
</p>
@@ -743,7 +746,7 @@
<p>Part of the <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">new API</seealso>.
Do a complete encrypt or decrypt of the full text.
</p>
- <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c>.
+ <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c>. For decryption, set it to <c>false</c>.
</p>
<p>See <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">examples in the User's Guide.</seealso>
</p>
@@ -758,7 +761,12 @@
<p>Part of the <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">new API</seealso>.
Do a complete encrypt or decrypt with an AEAD cipher of the full text.
</p>
- <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c>.
+ <p>For encryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>true</c> and set the <c>TagOrTagLength</c>
+ to the wanted size of the tag, that is, the tag length. If the default length is wanted, the
+ <c>crypto_aead/6</c> form may be used.
+ </p>
+ <p>For decryption, set the <c>EncryptFlag</c> to <c>false</c> and put the tag to be checked
+ in the argument <c>TagOrTagLength</c>.
</p>
<p>See <seealso marker="crypto:new_api#the-new-api">examples in the User's Guide.</seealso>
</p>