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Zack Weinberg 841785bad1 manual: Revise crypt.texi.
This is a major rewrite of the description of 'crypt', 'getentropy',
and 'getrandom'.

A few highlights of the content changes:

 - Throughout the manual, public headers, and user-visible messages,
   I replaced the term "password" with "passphrase", the term
   "password database" with "user database", and the term
   "encrypt(ion)" with "(one-way) hashing" whenever it was applied to
   passphrases.  I didn't bother making this change in internal code
   or tests.  The use of the term "password" in ruserpass.c survives,
   because that refers to a keyword in netrc files, but it is adjusted
   to make this clearer.

   There is a note in crypt.texi explaining that they were
   traditionally called passwords but single words are not good enough
   anymore, and a note in users.texi explaining that actual passphrase
   hashes are found in a "shadow" database nowadays.

 - There is a new short introduction to the "Cryptographic Functions"
   section, explaining how we do not intend to be a general-purpose
   cryptography library, and cautioning that there _are_, or have
   been, legal restrictions on the use of cryptography in many
   countries, without getting into any kind of detail that we can't
   promise to keep up to date.

 - I added more detail about what a "one-way function" is, and why
   they are used to obscure passphrases for storage.  I removed the
   paragraph saying that systems not connected to a network need no
   user authentication, because that's a pretty rare situation
   nowadays.  (It still says "sometimes it is necessary" to
   authenticate the user, though.)

 - I added documentation for all of the hash functions that glibc
   actually supports, but not for the additional hash functions
   supported by libxcrypt.  If we're going to keep this manual section
   around after the transition is more advanced, it would probably
   make sense to add them then.

 - There is much more detailed discussion of how to generate a salt,
   and the failure behavior for crypt is documented.  (Returning an
   invalid hash on failure is what libxcrypt does; Solar Designer's
   notes say that this was done "for compatibility with old programs
   that assume crypt can never fail".)

 - As far as I can tell, the header 'crypt.h' is entirely a GNU
   invention, and never existed on any other Unix lineage.  The
   function 'crypt', however, was in Issue 1 of the SVID and is now
   in the XSI component of POSIX.  I tried to make all of the
   @standards annotations consistent with this, but I'm not sure I got
   them perfectly right.

 - The genpass.c example has been improved to use getentropy instead
   of the current time to generate the salt, and to use a SHA-256 hash
   instead of MD5. It uses more random bytes than is strictly
   necessary because I didn't want to complicate the code with proper
   base64 encoding.

 - The testpass.c example has three hardwired hashes now, to
   demonstrate that different one-way functions produce different
   hashes for the same input.  It also demonstrates how DES hashing
   only pays attention to the first eight characters of the input.

 - There is new text explaining in more detail how a CSPRNG differs
   from a regular random number generator, and how
   getentropy/getrandom are not exactly a CSPRNG.  I tried not to make
   specific falsifiable claims here.  I also tried to make the
   blocking/cancellation/error behavior of both getentropy and
   getrandom clearer.
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assert Fix uninitialized variable in assert_perror (bug 22761) 2018-02-05 11:06:15 +01:00
benchtests benchtests: Add -f/--functions argument 2018-06-12 09:10:42 -07:00
bits hurd: Fix shmid_ds's shm_segsz field type 2018-06-02 21:52:43 +02:00
catgets intl/tst-gettext: fix failure with newest msgfmt 2018-02-18 18:16:05 +01:00
ChangeLog.old Add missing reference to bug 21654 2017-10-07 13:14:36 +02:00
conform Disallow use of DES encryption functions in new programs. 2018-06-29 16:53:18 +02:00
crypt manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
csu Fix Linux fcntl OFD locks for non-LFS architectures (BZ#20251) 2018-06-26 13:22:53 -03:00
ctype Use libc_hidden_* for tolower, toupper (bug 15105). 2018-02-23 13:54:53 +00:00
debug libio: Avoid _allocate_buffer, _free_buffer function pointers [BZ #23236] 2018-06-01 10:41:03 +02:00
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inet manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
intl intl/tst-gettext: fix failure with newest msgfmt 2018-02-18 18:16:05 +01:00
io Fix Linux fcntl OFD locks for non-LFS architectures (BZ#20251) 2018-06-26 13:22:53 -03:00
libio libio: Add tst-vtables, tst-vtables-interposed 2018-06-26 12:31:08 +02:00
locale Fix two more -Os strcoll / wcscoll build failures. 2018-02-27 16:55:42 +00:00
localedata ast_ES: Add alternative month names (bug 23140). 2018-06-29 12:36:53 +02:00
login Fix Linux fcntl OFD locks for non-LFS architectures (BZ#20251) 2018-06-26 13:22:53 -03:00
mach hurd: Avoid PLT references to syscalls 2018-06-16 02:50:36 +02:00
malloc malloc: Update heap dumping/undumping comments [BZ #23351] 2018-06-29 14:55:15 +02:00
manual manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
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nscd manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
nss nss_files: Use struct scratch_buffer instead of extend_alloca [BZ #18023] 2018-06-25 19:48:01 +02:00
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posix manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
pwd manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
resolv Run thread shutdown functions in an explicit order 2018-06-26 15:27:12 +02:00
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scripts Fix hardcoded /tmp paths in testing (bug 13888). 2018-06-26 21:48:48 +00:00
setjmp x86: Use pad in pthread_unwind_buf to preserve shadow stack register 2018-05-02 06:17:41 -07:00
shadow manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
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soft-fp Make powerpc-nofpu __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 compat symbols (bug 18473). 2018-06-01 17:25:12 +00:00
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sunrpc Disallow use of DES encryption functions in new programs. 2018-06-29 16:53:18 +02:00
support support: Add TEST_NO_SETVBUF 2018-06-26 12:30:50 +02:00
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ChangeLog manual: Revise crypt.texi. 2018-06-29 16:53:37 +02:00
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INSTALL Document use of CC and CFLAGS in more detail (bug 20980, bug 21234). 2018-02-15 23:48:47 +00:00
libc-abis A few more archs have IFUNC support. 2010-03-17 02:43:12 -07:00
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