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authorCarl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>2019-09-13 22:17:03 +0100
committerCarl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>2019-09-20 00:28:14 +0200
commit44662dcbb5cb5543ff1810b4a92115e447553c9d (patch)
tree26f37eba38cd0f088188f47a4e35e0d641f630aa
parent2a20226bd8e1f01af1af4cbf1ad4c8752959d6a8 (diff)
Tidy some grammar and remove a silly colloquialism.
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
index b2396b6c9..18fe753b5 100644
--- a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
@@ -2168,7 +2168,7 @@ from the timeline is also preserved.
<title>Encryption</title>
<para>
-It is not required that DCPs be encrypted, but they can be. This
+DCP's do not have to be encrypted, but they can be. This
chapter discusses the basic principles of DCP encryption, and how
DCP-o-matic can create encrypted DCPs and KDMs for them.
</para>
@@ -2182,7 +2182,7 @@ DCP-o-matic can create encrypted DCPs and KDMs for them.
DCPs can be encrypted. This means that the picture and sound data are
encoded in such a way that only cinemas &lsquo;approved&rsquo; by the
DCP's creators can read them. In particular, this means copies of the
-DCP can be distributed by insecure means: if an ne'er-do-well called
+DCP can be distributed by insecure means: if a bad person called
Mallory obtains a hard drive containing an encrypted DCP, there is no
way that he can play it. Only those cinemas who receive a correct key
delivery message (KDM) can play the DCP.
@@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@ know the key.
</para>
<para>
-The first step in a DCP encryption is to encode its data with some key
+The first step in a DCP encryption is to encode its data with a random key
using symmetric-key encryption. The encrypted DCP can then be sent
anywhere, safe in the knowledge that even if Mallory got hold of a
copy, he could not decrypt it.