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| author | Jakob Unterwurzacher | 2021-11-01 14:44:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Jakob Unterwurzacher | 2021-11-01 14:44:32 +0100 |
| commit | d530fbd400c88fa54c856d958963d77669ac9cf2 (patch) | |
| tree | d43ee0ed0ab4738e4fe5a77ceed3222740f3842c /Documentation | |
| parent | 87a6bb370acc3690e89a8b0d5109fcb0dab0a374 (diff) | |
docs: names longer than 175 bytes (not 176) are stored in longnames
Quoting fusefrontend_reverse/node_helpers.go :
// File names are padded to 16-byte multiples, encrypted and
// base64-encoded. We can encode at most 176 bytes to stay below the 255
// bytes limit:
// * base64(176 bytes) = 235 bytes
// * base64(192 bytes) = 256 bytes (over 255!)
// But the PKCS#7 padding is at least one byte. This means we can only use
// 175 bytes for the file name.
Noticed by @bailey27 at https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/499#issuecomment-955790427
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/MANPAGE.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md index b9c72dd..ffed44e 100644 --- a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md +++ b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md @@ -318,9 +318,10 @@ the directories. Example: gocryptfs -ko noexec /tmp/foo /tmp/bar #### -longnames -Store names longer than 176 bytes in extra files (default true) -This flag is useful when recovering old gocryptfs filesystems using -"-masterkey". It is ignored (stays at the default) otherwise. +Store names that are longer than 175 bytes in extra files (default true). + +This flag is only useful when recovering very old gocryptfs filesystems (gocryptfs v0.8 and earlier) +using "-masterkey". It is ignored (stays at the default) otherwise. #### -nodev See `-dev, -nodev`. |