* 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? -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
