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bsum - Compute and check BLAKE message digests
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B bsum
-[-l bits] [-c | -B | -L | -U] [-S salt] [-xz]
+[-l bits] [-S salt] [-c | -B | -L | -U] [-xz]
.RI [ file "] ..."
.SH DESCRIPTION
Print or check BLAKE checksums.
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ are 224 (default), 256, 384, and 512.
Specify a 16-byte (for the 224 and 256 bit versions) or
32-byte salt (for the 384 and 512 bit versions) that the
BLAKE algorithm shall use. This salt shall be expressed
-in full length hexadecimal: 32 (for 16-bytes) or 64
-(for 32-bytes) hexadecimal digits, or rather 16 or 32 pairs
+in full length hexadecimal: 32 (for 16-byte) or 64
+(for 32-byte) hexadecimal digits, or rather 16 or 32 pairs
of hexadecimal digits, ordered from left to right to specify
the values from index 0 to the last byte. In each pair,
the left digit stores the high bits of the byte, and the
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ digit pair
represents a byte with the decimal value 8. The pairs
are joined without any delimiters, and no byte may be
omitted. So, for a 16 byte salt where each byte's value
-is its index, the salt is expressed as,
+is its index, the salt is expressed as
.BR 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f ,
however each letter may be either small or capital.
If no salt is specified, an all-zeroes salt is used.