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Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch (zola.ink)
3 points by znano 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


For 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.




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