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diff --git a/doc/design/encryption.mdwn b/doc/design/encryption.mdwn index 003336dd3..43d8119e3 100644 --- a/doc/design/encryption.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/encryption.mdwn @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ unencrypted, differentiate from those as well.) At a high level, an encryption backend needs to support these operations: +* Create a new encrypted cipher, or update the cipher. Some input + parameters will specifiy things like the gpg public keys that + can access the cipher. + +* Initialize an instance of the encryption backend, that will use a + specified encrypted cipher. + * Given a key/value backend key, produce and return an encrypted key. The same naming scheme git-annex uses for keys in regular key/value @@ -32,8 +39,6 @@ At a high level, an encryption backend needs to support these operations: * Given a streaming source of encrypted content, decrypt it, and send it in a stream to an anction that consumes the decrypted content. -* Initialize itself. - * Clean up. * Configure an encryption key to use. |