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diff --git a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml index a8065a754..664b05438 100644 --- a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml +++ b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml @@ -1560,8 +1560,8 @@ methods to understand it. </para> <para> -We suppose that we are trying to distribute a DCP, to -Alice's cinema, without a troublemaker called Mallory being able to +We suppose that we are trying to send a DCP to +Alice's cinema without a troublemaker called Mallory being able to watch it himself. </para> @@ -1588,11 +1588,12 @@ happened to know Mallory, she could just send him a copy of the key. </para> <para> -The clever bit in DCP encryption requires the use of public-key +The clever bit in the process requires the use of public-key encryption. With this technique we can encrypt a block of data using some ‘public’ key. That data can then only be decrypted -using a <emphasis>different</emphasis> ‘private’ key. The -private and public keys are related mathematically, but it is +using a corresponding private key which is +<emphasis>different</emphasis> to the public key. The private and +public keys form a pair which are related mathematically, but it is extremely hard (or rather, virtually impossible) to derive the private key from the public key. </para> |