Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch
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Re: Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch
#2For the header you need to add a sort of MAC system to authenticate the metadata and the header
Re: Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch
#3For the header you need to add a sort of MAC system to authenticate the metadata and the header
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.