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@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ unencrypted, differentiate from those as well.)
At a high level, an encryption backend needs to support these operations: 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. * 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 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 * Given a streaming source of encrypted content, decrypt it, and send
it in a stream to an anction that consumes the decrypted content. it in a stream to an anction that consumes the decrypted content.
* Initialize itself.
* Clean up. * Clean up.
* Configure an encryption key to use. * Configure an encryption key to use.