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From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Subject: [SCM] GNU gnutls branch, master, updated. gnutls_3_1_3-98-g5f9d3a2
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:30:09 +0000

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commit 5f9d3a2b2f618e4369d7851b6c0ec0806e5162c2
Author: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Nov 8 23:29:57 2012 +0100

    doc updates

commit d3af4aada3a0f170535a2f90e2ec3121b34b9a85
Author: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Nov 8 23:08:46 2012 +0100

    doc update

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Summary of changes:
 doc/cha-cert-auth.texi |    4 +++-
 doc/cha-gtls-app.texi  |   16 +++++++++++-----
 doc/cha-intro-tls.texi |    2 +-
 doc/latex/gnutls.bib   |   11 ++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi b/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi
index 168b106..6b9c85d 100644
--- a/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi
+++ b/doc/cha-cert-auth.texi
@@ -498,7 +498,9 @@ provide an alternative public key infrastructure to the 
commercial CAs that
 are typically used to sign TLS certificates. The DANE protocol takes advantage
 of the DNSSEC infrastructure to verify TLS certificates. This can be 
 in addition to the verification by CA infrastructure or 
-could even replace it where DNSSEC is deployed.
+may even replace it where DNSSEC is fully deployed. Note however, that DNSSEC 
deployment is
+fairly new and it would be better to use it as an additional verification
+method rather than the only one.
 
 The DANE functionality is provided by the @code{libgnutls-dane} library that 
is shipped
 with GnuTLS and the function prototypes are in @code{gnutls/dane.h}. 
diff --git a/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi b/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi
index 85c758a..b6ad475 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 a83c0f7..9674fb4 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 
address@hidden resumption} and @ref{ex:resume-client} illustrate typical 
address@hidden 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 74a4915..40ac460 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";
 }
 
address@hidden RFC2246,
address@hidden 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 "
+}
+
address@hidden RFC2246 ,
        author = "Tim Dierks and Christopher Allen",
        title = "{The TLS Protocol Version 1.0}",
        month = "January",


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