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by benlivengood 1515 days ago
It's also a pretty strong indictment of any sort of add-on file encryption software. HMACing files is out of scope and not the intention of the software and too difficult to implement to boot? Waiting for enough PBKDF2 rounds will annoy customers, when Microsoft office products take multiple seconds in a splash screen to load? I am probably just spoiled by OSS/free software offerings.

It would be great if exFAT was not patent-encumbered and supported native encryption+integrity. ZIP archives at least provide cross-platform encryption+integrity with AES-256 but without block-level hmacs or encrypted file names. Maybe Windows will add support for ZFS someday?