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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-10-05 14:11:02 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-10-05 14:13:14 +0200
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man: reword of fido2 key derivation
"keyed by" is indeed a bit jargony. Say " a HMAC hash of the salt combined with an internal secret key" instead. For #17177.
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<listitem><para>Takes a path to a Linux <literal>hidraw</literal> device
(e.g. <filename>/dev/hidraw1</filename>), referring to a FIDO2 security token implementing the
- <literal>hmac-secret</literal> extension, that shall be able to unlock the user account. If used, a
- random salt value is generated on the host, which is passed to the FIDO2 device, which calculates a
- HMAC hash of it, keyed by its internal secret key. The result is then used as key for unlocking the
- user account. The random salt is included in the user record, so that whenever authentication is
- needed it can be passed again to the FIDO2 token, to retrieve the actual key.</para>
+ <literal>hmac-secret</literal> extension that shall be able to unlock the user account. A random salt
+ value is generated on the host and passed to the FIDO2 device, which calculates a HMAC hash of the
+ salt combined with an internal secret key. The result is then used as the key to unlock the user
+ account. The random salt is included in the user record, so that whenever authentication is needed it
+ can be passed again to the FIDO2 token again.</para>
<para>Instead of a valid path to a FIDO2 <literal>hidraw</literal> device the special strings
<literal>list</literal> and <literal>auto</literal> may be specified. If <literal>list</literal> is