Encryption and authentication
John Goerzen <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:44:45 -0500
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Hi, I hope you'll excuse all my dar enthusiasm... I really am enjoying it and just had a lengthy Mastodon thread about it. Anyhow, in researching the encryption and signature options, I believe that what I have found it this: - The encryption itself is not authenticated (not using AEAD or some such) - The signature applies only to the session key - (And the key seems to be derived using SHA-1; not sure how important that is) So it looks to me that --sign doesn't actually guarantee the integrity of the data. Related, does the encryption also encrypt metadata such as filename at every occurrence? Thanks! - John