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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2013-12-17 19:40:02 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-12-18 23:58:24 -0500
commit06d9d3efa554ffc63b5977f1d86e393edeef8ad1 (patch)
tree9c78c9e8f86371ee41bc7a5b2fc32657e34fb697 /man
parent9a7adc9a0ed53d6e422321e9196eb83d18afcba5 (diff)
man: add DOI for refereed article on Forward Secure Sealing to journald.conf(5)
In journalctl(1), be more explicit about the reference to "Seal=" in journald.conf(5) and what information can be found there.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/journalctl.xml8
-rw-r--r--man/journald.conf.xml10
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 23bb96051d..2de72523cc 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -800,10 +800,14 @@
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>
- 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>
diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
index 7aa2e78ed3..8e642a3f59 100644
--- a/man/journald.conf.xml
+++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
@@ -130,15 +130,15 @@
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
- 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>
<varlistentry>