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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-07-25 15:12:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-07-25 15:12:51 -0400 |
| commit | acbd521c0e7fd7176775378845ff8f4f65bf20c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 61e9b2d840d3e35e50b3a5f1b6fa8dfcf1493335 /doc | |
| parent | 956807053d627355157f1df51667b2a61f57ab60 (diff) | |
thought about chunk key hashing
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn | 9 |
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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn index d7517243c..b5a86ef82 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/chunks.mdwn @@ -209,3 +209,12 @@ 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. |