Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting

Randall Smith randall at tnr.cc
Sat Jun 27 14:22:33 EDT 2015


On 06/27/2015 07:38 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-06-26, Randall Smith <randall at tnr.cc> wrote:
>
>> The only person who can read a file is the owner.
>
> That's always the plan, but many a successful exploit has been based
> on breaking that assumption.  If privacy actually matters, that's not
> a good assumption to rely on as a single point of failure.
>
> --
> Grant
>


The owner (client software) encrypts the data using AES.  This is the 
default behavior of the client software.  If the client chooses to 
disable encryption, that's their issue for sure.  I'm trying to make 
sure it doesn't become the storage server's issue too.

-Randall




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