From 963d281ed52bed9dd716da56a3c51c7b62c68ed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:58:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Slightly clarify the control spec

svn:r14362
---
 doc/spec/control-spec.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/spec/control-spec.txt b/doc/spec/control-spec.txt
index 60e5a7872b..01ff287ea3 100644
--- a/doc/spec/control-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/spec/control-spec.txt
@@ -1513,7 +1513,8 @@ $Id$
            'tor --hash-password <password>'
   or by using the example code in the Python and Java controller libraries.
   To authenticate under this scheme, the controller sends Tor the original
-  secret that was used to generate the password.
+  secret that was used to generate the password, either as a quoted string
+  or encoded in hexadecimal.
 
 5.2. Don't let the buffer get too big.