Re: Checksum and transform layering

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* Gregory Maxwell:

> I noticed in the compression support that the checksum is over the
> uncompressed data.
>
> While this has the advantages that the checksum does not have to be
> changed as transformations are changed and the system might catch
> errors in the compression layer, this design decision will be
> problematic if/when encryption is supported:  Plaintext checksums
> would leak substantial amounts of information about the content of
> files.

Would this be an issue if metadata (including file names) were
encrypted as well?

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