Hi Nettle folks--

There's a typo in the Nettle manual about the ARCTWO block size. the attached patch (against 2.1) should fix it.

Of course, it might already be fixed on the development trunk. Is there a public revision control system for nettle someplace i can look at?

--dkg

PS i sent this message earlier PGP/MIME-signed, but it was rejected by the mailing list with "After content filtering, the message was empty" -- could the content filtering be relaxed a little bit to allow multipart/signed messages?

The message MIME structure looked like this:

└┬╴multipart/signed ├┬╴multipart/mixed │├╴text/plain │└╴text/x-diff attachment └╴application/pgp-signature attachment

I then tried re-sending it without the cryptographic signature, which produced a message like this:

└┬╴multipart/mixed ├╴text/plain └╴text/x-diff attachment

This second message was rejected with the message:

"The message's content type was not explicitly allowed"

Both of these seem like pretty reasonable message structures for posts to a cryptographic software development mailing list; it'd be nice if they could go through :)

Here is the patch inline:

arctwo-doc-fix.patch

--- nettle.texinfo.orig 2011-03-16 19:08:50.000000000 -0400 +++ nettle.texinfo 2011-03-16 19:09:26.000000000 -0400 @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ @end deftp

@defvr Constant ARCTWO_BLOCK_SIZE -The AES block-size, 8 +The ARCTWO block-size, 8 @end defvr

@defvr Constant ARCTWO_MIN_KEY_SIZE