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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2012-11-08 23:29:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2012-11-08 23:29:57 +0100 |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/cha-gtls-app.texi | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/cha-intro-tls.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/latex/gnutls.bib | 11 |
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diff --git a/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi b/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi index 85c758a7d4..b6ad475dbe 100644 --- a/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi +++ b/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ @node Introduction to the library @section Introduction +This chapter tries to explain the basic functionality of the current GnuTLS +library. Note that there may be additional functionality not discussed here +but included in the library. Checking the header files in @file{/usr/include/gnutls/} +and the manpages is recommended. + @menu * General idea:: * Error handling:: @@ -31,16 +36,17 @@ @node General idea @subsection General idea -A brief description of how @acronym{GnuTLS} works internally is shown -at @ref{fig:gnutls-design}. This section may become more clear after -having read the rest of this section. +A brief description of how @acronym{GnuTLS} sessions operate is shown +at @ref{fig:gnutls-design}. This section will become more clear when it +is completely read. As shown in the figure, there is a read-only global state that is initialized once by the global initialization function. This global structure, among others, contains the memory allocation functions -used, and structures needed for the @acronym{ASN.1} parser. This +used, structures needed for the @acronym{ASN.1} parser and depending +on the system's CPU, pointers to hardware accelerated encryption functions. This structure is never modified by any @acronym{GnuTLS} function, except for the deinitialization function which frees all allocated memory -and is called after the program has permanently +and must be called after the program has permanently finished using @acronym{GnuTLS}. @float Figure,fig:gnutls-design diff --git a/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi b/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi index a83c0f721f..9674fb4972 100644 --- a/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi +++ b/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ established keys, meaning the server needs to store the state of established connections (unless session tickets are used -- @ref{Session tickets}). Session resumption is an integral part of @acronym{GnuTLS}, and -@ref{Session resumption} and @ref{ex:resume-client} illustrate typical +@ref{Session resumption}, @ref{ex:resume-client} illustrate typical uses of it. @node TLS Extensions diff --git a/doc/latex/gnutls.bib b/doc/latex/gnutls.bib index 74a4915bf1..40ac460bf6 100644 --- a/doc/latex/gnutls.bib +++ b/doc/latex/gnutls.bib @@ -7,7 +7,16 @@ url = "http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-01" } -@Misc{ RFC2246, +@Misc{ RFC5764, + author = "David McGrew and Eric Rescorla", + title = "{Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Extension to Establish Keys for the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)}", + month = "May", + year = "2010", + note = "Available from \url{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5764}", + url = "http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5764 " +} + +@Misc{ RFC2246 , author = "Tim Dierks and Christopher Allen", title = "{The TLS Protocol Version 1.0}", month = "January", |