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

Posted by znano on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:21AM
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Re:Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypte... by imbhmn on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:43AM (#44825986)

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

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Re:Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypte... by znano on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:49AM (#44826066)

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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