Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch(zola.ink)

3 pointsby znanovor 12 Monaten2 comments

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imbhmnvor 12 Monaten

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

znanovor 12 Monaten

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.