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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-08-01 18:00:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-08-01 18:00:47 -0400 |
| commit | ddbf5df3c9940473663a6e562f8ee3583867046e (patch) | |
| tree | 40dc81d0c2693b5fd5fc3e5b9cd8df17e0505ec5 /doc/design/assistant | |
| parent | 154cb13180fbe877d2030d83a415b30150ac7298 (diff) | |
| parent | d0a8e3d6217f2924b864393d425b6d7582370d07 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'newchunks'
I am happy enough with this to make it live!
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/design/assistant')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn index 48a1876e4..a9709a778 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn @@ -231,6 +231,15 @@ cannot check exact file sizes. If padding is enabled, gpg compression should be disabled, to not leak clues about how well the files compress and so what kind of file it is. +## chunk key hashing + +A chunk key should hash into the same directory structure as its parent +key. This will avoid lots of extra hash directories when using chunking +with non-encrypted keys. + +Won't happen when the key is encrypted, but that is good; hashing to the +same bucket then would allow statistical correlation. + ## resuming interupted transfers Resuming interrupted downloads, and uploads are both possible. |