still more patches by Arne Thomassen

8 files changed, 19 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/doc/tex/alert.tex b/doc/tex/alert.tex
index 74c6740de7..3c1f13df27 100644
--- a/doc/tex/alert.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/alert.tex
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ fatal or warning. Fatal alerts always terminate the current connection,
 and prevent future renegotiations using the current session ID.
 
 \par The alert messages are protected by the record protocol, thus
-the information that it's included does not leak. You must take
-extreme care for the alert information not to leak, to a possible attacker
+the information that is included does not leak. You must take
+extreme care for the alert information not to leak to a possible attacker
 (via public log files etc).
 
 \par
@@ -28,5 +28,3 @@ returns the last received alert.
 \item \printfunc{gnutls_alert_get_name}{gnutls\_alert\_get\_name}:
 returns the name (in a character array) of the given alert.
 \end{itemize}
-
-
diff --git a/doc/tex/ciphersuites.tex b/doc/tex/ciphersuites.tex
index 29031304ad..65dda77442 100644
--- a/doc/tex/ciphersuites.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/ciphersuites.tex
@@ -13,12 +13,10 @@ be described as a keyed hash algorithm. See RFC2104.} algorithm used for authent
 MAC\_SHA is used in the above example.
 \end{itemize}
 
-The cipher suite negotiated in the handshake protocol, will affect 
+The cipher suite negotiated in the handshake protocol will affect
 the Record Protocol, by enabling encryption and data authentication.
 Note that you should not over rely on \tls{} to negotiate the strongest 
 available cipher suite. Do not enable
 ciphers and algorithms that you consider weak.
 
 \addvspace{1.5cm}
-
-
diff --git a/doc/tex/ex-cert-select.tex b/doc/tex/ex-cert-select.tex
index 0c8fe78ab8..a24ab350ad 100644
--- a/doc/tex/ex-cert-select.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/ex-cert-select.tex
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static int cert_callback(gnutls_session session,
       }
    }
 
-   /* Select a certificate from the client_certs and return it's
+   /* Select a certificate from the client_certs and return its
     * index.
     */
 
diff --git a/doc/tex/howto.tex b/doc/tex/howto.tex
index 6621a2a59f..73d8d4e2e5 100644
--- a/doc/tex/howto.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/howto.tex
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ with this method is a denial of service one. The most famous
 example of this method is the famous ``HTTP over TLS'' or HTTPS\footnote{RFC2818} 
 protocol.
 \par
-Despite it's wide use, this method is not as good as it seems.
+Despite its wide use, this method is not as good as it seems.
 This approach starts the \tls{} Handshake procedure just after the
 client connects on the --so called-- secure port. 
 That way the \tls{} protocol does not know anything
diff --git a/doc/tex/record.tex b/doc/tex/record.tex
index 32ebf036b4..19defc52e9 100644
--- a/doc/tex/record.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/record.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \section{The TLS record protocol\index{TLS protocols!Record}}
 
-The Record protocol is the secure communications provider. It's purpose
+The Record protocol is the secure communications provider. Its purpose
 is to encrypt, authenticate and --optionally-- compress packets.
 The following functions are available:
 \par
diff --git a/doc/tex/record_weaknesses.tex b/doc/tex/record_weaknesses.tex
index e2a3280d18..75c5696a11 100644
--- a/doc/tex/record_weaknesses.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/record_weaknesses.tex
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 
 Some weaknesses that may affect the security of the Record layer have been
 found in \tlsI{} protocol. These weaknesses can be exploited by active attackers,
-and exploit the facts that \tls{} 
+and exploit the facts that
 \begin{enumerate}
-\item has separate alerts for ``decryption\_failed'' and ``bad\_record\_mac''
-\item the decryption failure reason can be detected by timing the responce time
+\item \tls{} has separate alerts for ``decryption\_failed'' and ``bad\_record\_mac''
+\item the decryption failure reason can be detected by timing the response time
 \item the IV for CBC encrypted packets is the last block of the previous encrypted packet
 \end{enumerate}
 
diff --git a/doc/tex/srp.tex b/doc/tex/srp.tex
index 5499267c59..a71e7643cf 100644
--- a/doc/tex/srp.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/srp.tex
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 \section{Authentication using SRP\index{SRP authentication}}
 
-Authentication using the SRP\footnote{SRP stands for Secure Password Protocol and 
+Authentication using the SRP\footnote{SRP stands for Secure Remote Password and 
 is described in \cite{RFC2945}. The SRP key exchange is not a part of the \tlsI{} protocol}
-is actually password authentication, since the two peers are identified by the knowledge of a password. 
+protocol is actually password authentication, since the two peers are identified by the knowledge of a password.
 This protocol also offers protection against off-line attacks, such as password 
 file stealing. 
 This is achieved since SRP does not use the plain password to perform authentication, 
diff --git a/doc/tex/translayer.tex b/doc/tex/translayer.tex
index 0348626a15..8ab54a3b44 100644
--- a/doc/tex/translayer.tex
+++ b/doc/tex/translayer.tex
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 \section{The transport layer}
 \par
-\tls{} is not limited to any transport layer, it 
-can be used above any transport layer, as long as, it is a reliable 
-one. A set of functions is provided and its purpose is to load
-to gnutls the required callbacks to access the transport layer.
+\tls{} is not limited to one transport layer, it
+can be used above any transport layer, as long as it is a reliable
+one. A set of functions is provided and their purpose is to load
+to \gnutls{} the required callbacks to access the transport layer.
 
 \begin{itemize}
 \item \printfunc{gnutls_transport_set_push_function}{gnutls\_transport\_set\_push\_function}
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ The callback functions should return the number of bytes written, or -1 on
 error and should set errno appropriately.
 \par
 \gnutls{} currently only interprets the EINTR and EAGAIN errno values and
-returns the corresponding gnutls error codes GNUTLS\_E\_INTERRUPTED and
+returns the corresponding \gnutls{} error codes GNUTLS\_E\_INTERRUPTED and
 GNUTLS\_E\_AGAIN.
 These values are usually returned by interrupted system calls, or 
 when non blocking IO is used. All \gnutls{} functions
 can be resumed (called again), if any of these error codes is returned.
 The error codes above refer to the system call, not the \gnutls{} function,
-since signals do not interrupt gnutls' functions.
+since signals do not interrupt \gnutls{}' functions.
 
 \par
 By default, if the transport functions are not set, \gnutls{} will use
 the Berkeley Sockets functions. In this case
-gnutls will use some hacks in order for \emph{select()} to work, thus
-making easy to add \tls{} support to existing TCP/IP servers.
+\gnutls{} will use some hacks in order for \emph{select()} to work, thus
+making it easy to add \tls{} support to existing TCP/IP servers.