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| author | Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> | 2021-04-01 17:34:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> | 2021-04-01 17:34:52 +0200 |
| commit | 847716b053a8ce7bdf610819acb13772d1c981c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 89e182631b883849651e8b35bf68d38feefeab79 | |
| parent | 42c4c7c880f73e0cc0a64af719fd2b3a3e07b9b2 (diff) | |
| download | libpwquality-git-847716b053a8ce7bdf610819acb13772d1c981c3.tar.gz | |
Document the range of allowed entropy bits when generating passwords
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/pwmake.1.pod | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/pwquality.3.pod | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/pwmake.1.pod b/doc/man/pwmake.1.pod index 33efe9a..22e0939 100644 --- a/doc/man/pwmake.1.pod +++ b/doc/man/pwmake.1.pod @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ the attacker might obtain the direct access to the password hash or the password is used as an encryption key I<80> to I<128> bits should be used depending on your level of paranoia. +Any I<entropy-bits> value outside of the I<56> to I<256> bits range will be +adjusted to fit within the allowed range. + =head1 OPTIONS The first and only argument is the number of bits of entropy used to generate diff --git a/doc/man/pwquality.3.pod b/doc/man/pwquality.3.pod index 8e4ab79..2604845 100644 --- a/doc/man/pwquality.3.pod +++ b/doc/man/pwquality.3.pod @@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ manipulate the I<pwq> settings object. The pwquality_generate() function generates a random password of I<entropy_bits> entropy and checks it according to the settings. The -I<*password> is allocated on the heap by the library. +I<*password> is allocated on the heap by the library. The I<entropy_bits> +value is adjusted to fit within the B<PWQ_MIN_ENTROPY_BITS> and +B<PWQ_MAX_ENTROPY_BITS> range before generating a password. The pwquality_check() function checks the I<password> according to the settings. It returns either score (value between 0 and 100), negative |