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Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch (zola.ink)
3 points by znano 309 days ago
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imbhmn 309 days ago
For the header you need to add a sort of MAC system to authenticate the metadata and the header
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znano 309 days ago
Yeah thanks for the suggestion, i guess i can allocate a few bytes at the end of the header for the MAC so it would prevent tweaking the metadata.
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