summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/man3/BF_encrypt.pod
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/BF_encrypt.pod')
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/BF_encrypt.pod2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/BF_encrypt.pod b/doc/man3/BF_encrypt.pod
index b20f634da6..ebf1e3f89b 100644
--- a/doc/man3/BF_encrypt.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/BF_encrypt.pod
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ recipient needs to know what it was initialized with, or it won't be able
to decrypt. Some programs and protocols simplify this, like SSH, where
B<ivec> is simply initialized to zero.
BF_cbc_encrypt() operates on data that is a multiple of 8 bytes long, while
-BF_cfb64_encrypt() and BF_ofb64_encrypt() are used to encrypt an variable
+BF_cfb64_encrypt() and BF_ofb64_encrypt() are used to encrypt a variable
number of bytes (the amount does not have to be an exact multiple of 8). The
purpose of the latter two is to simulate stream ciphers, and therefore, they
need the parameter B<num>, which is a pointer to an integer where the current