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In three words: because we can.
@@ -68,12 +67,11 @@ Today cryptography is an important means for enhancing the security of an operating system. The -cryptography utilized in OpenBSD can be classified into three -different aspects, which will be described later.
+cryptography utilized in OpenBSD can be classified into various +aspects, described as follows.
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What is the first thing most people do after installing OpenBSD? They install Secure Shell (ssh) from the ports tree or the packages on @@ -93,7 +91,7 @@ But this way almost everyone will get ssh built-in.
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A Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) provides applications with a stream of numbers which have certain important properties for system security:
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A Hash Function compresses its input data to a string of constant size. For a Cryptographic Hash Function it is infeasible to find: @@ -171,7 +169,7 @@
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Cryptographic Transforms are used to encrypt and decrypt data. These are normally used with an encryption key for data encryption and with @@ -207,7 +205,7 @@
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Of course, our project needs people to work on these systems. If any non-American cryptographer who meets the constraints listed earlier is @@ -216,7 +214,7 @@
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A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about cryptographic changes they have done in OpenBSD. The postscript @@ -234,14 +232,12 @@ slides. - -