Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch

3 points by znano 1 year ago | 2 comments

imbhmn 1 year ago |

For the header you need to add a sort of MAC system to authenticate the metadata and the header

znano 1 year 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.

imbhmn 1 year ago |

For the header you need to add a sort of MAC system to authenticate the metadata and the header

znano 1 year 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.