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Changelog
---------
+v0.5 (in progress)
+* **Stronger filename encryption: DirIV**
+ * Each directory gets a random 128 bit file name IV on creation,
+ stored in `gocryptfs.diriv`
+ * This makes it impossible to identify identically-named files across
+ directories
+ * A single-entry IV cache brings the performance cost of DirIV close to
+ zero for common operations (see performance.txt)
+ * This is a forwards-compatible change. gocryptfs v0.5 can mount filesystems
+ created by earlier version but not the other way round.
+* New command-line option:
+ * `-diriv`: Use the new per-directory IV file name encryption (default true)
+ * `-scryptn`: allows to set the scrypt cost parameter N. This option
+ can be used for faster mounting at the cost of lower brute-force
+ resistance. It was mainly added to speed up the automated tests.
+
v0.4
* New command-line options:
* `-plaintextnames`: disables filename encryption, added on user request
@@ -112,7 +128,7 @@ v0.4
* On-disk format 2
v0.3
-* Add file header that contains a random id to authenticate blocks
+* **Add a random 128 bit file header to authenticate file->block ownership**
* This is an on-disk-format change
* On-disk format 1
diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
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### File Names
-* File names are encrypted using AES-256-CBC because it is robust even
- without using an IV
-* The file names are padded to multiples of 16 bytes
+* File names are encrypted using AES-256-CBC with a per-directory IV
+* Each directory get a random 128 bit IV on creation
+ * Files with the same name in different directories are encrypted to
+ different filenames and can not be identified
+* File names are padded to multiples of 16 bytes
* This means that the exact length of the name is hidden, only length
ranges (1-16 bytes, 17-32 bytes etc.) can be determined from the encrypted
files
-* For technical reasons, no IV is used
- * This means that files with the same name within one gocryptfs filesystem
- always get the same encrypted name
### Metadata
* The size of the file is not hidden. The exact file size can be calculated
from the size of the encrypted file.
-* File owner, file permissions and timestamps are not hidden either
+* File owner, file permissions and timestamps are not hidden.
Integrity
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