Repaired some glitches in the MD5 and SHA docs; copied the descriptions of

the MD5 methods into the SHA docs (substituting "sha" for "md5", of course,
and changing the stuff that depended on digest size accordingly).
Fred, don't trust me!

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmd5.tex b/Doc/lib/libmd5.tex
index cf35c8c..bec1132 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libmd5.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libmd5.tex
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 This module implements the interface to RSA's MD5 message digest
 \index{message digest, MD5}
 algorithm (see also Internet \rfc{1321}).  Its use is quite
-straightforward:\ use the \function{new()} to create an md5 object.
+straightforward:\ use \function{new()} to create an md5 object.
 You can now feed this object with arbitrary strings using the
 \method{update()} method, and at any point you can ask it for the
 \dfn{digest} (a strong kind of 128-bit checksum,
@@ -56,13 +56,15 @@ arguments, i.e.\ \code{m.update(a); m.update(b)} is equivalent to
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[md5]{digest}{}
 Return the digest of the strings passed to the \method{update()}
-method so far.  This is an 16-byte string which may contain
+method so far.  This is a 16-byte string which may contain
 non-\ASCII{} characters, including null bytes.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[md5]{hexdigest}{}
 Like \method{digest()} except the digest is returned as a string of
-length 32, containing only hexadecimal digits.
+length 32, containing only hexadecimal digits.  This may 
+be used to exchange the value safely in email or other non-binary
+environments.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[md5]{copy}{}