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authorJakob Unterwurzacher2021-05-25 13:24:18 +0200
committerJakob Unterwurzacher2021-05-26 13:17:56 +0200
commitbebd7ed81f9dd99113672ed9e22456d3fdbc24f6 (patch)
treed019648a980191c5cd9c42c3f6a62f95a6120483 /internal/contentenc
parent2a5ac3e9ba1fb3cdf2220524bc1633755092c794 (diff)
contentenc: update comments
Also, replace one open-coded calculation with a helper function.
Diffstat (limited to 'internal/contentenc')
-rw-r--r--internal/contentenc/content.go8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/internal/contentenc/content.go b/internal/contentenc/content.go
index efdec9f..747bb4c 100644
--- a/internal/contentenc/content.go
+++ b/internal/contentenc/content.go
@@ -43,9 +43,11 @@ const (
type ContentEnc struct {
// Cryptographic primitives
cryptoCore *cryptocore.CryptoCore
- // Plaintext block size
+ // plainBS is the plaintext block size. Usually 4096 bytes.
plainBS uint64
- // Ciphertext block size
+ // cipherBS is the ciphertext block size. Usually 4128 bytes.
+ // `cipherBS - plainBS`is the per-block overhead
+ // (use BlockOverhead() to calculate it for you!)
cipherBS uint64
// All-zero block of size cipherBS, for fast compares
allZeroBlock []byte
@@ -302,7 +304,7 @@ func (be *ContentEnc) doEncryptBlock(plaintext []byte, blockNo uint64, fileID []
cBlock = cBlock[0:len(nonce)]
// Encrypt plaintext and append to nonce
ciphertext := be.cryptoCore.AEADCipher.Seal(cBlock, nonce, plaintext, aData)
- overhead := int(be.cipherBS - be.plainBS)
+ overhead := int(be.BlockOverhead())
if len(plaintext)+overhead != len(ciphertext) {
log.Panicf("unexpected ciphertext length: plaintext=%d, overhead=%d, ciphertext=%d",
len(plaintext), overhead, len(ciphertext))