From a861d552c3e8925384fdeb6fdd18e5d839a36ac5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:42:43 +0000 Subject: Document that the key should not contain null bytes. --- Doc/lib/librotor.tex | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/librotor.tex b/Doc/lib/librotor.tex index e1db8ef..de99b46 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/librotor.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/librotor.tex @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The available functions in this module are: \begin{funcdesc}{newrotor}{key\optional{, numrotors}} Return a rotor object. \var{key} is a string containing the encryption key -for the object; it can contain arbitrary binary data. The key will be used +for the object; it can contain arbitrary binary data but not null bytes. +The key will be used to randomly generate the rotor permutations and their initial positions. \var{numrotors} is the number of rotor permutations in the returned object; if it is omitted, a default value of 6 will be used. @@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ if it is omitted, a default value of 6 will be used. Rotor objects have the following methods: \begin{methoddesc}[rotor]{setkey}{key} -Sets the rotor's key to \var{key}. +Sets the rotor's key to \var{key}. The key should not contain null bytes. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[rotor]{encrypt}{plaintext} -- cgit v0.12