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Diffstat (limited to 'internal/cryptocore')
| -rw-r--r-- | internal/cryptocore/cryptocore.go | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/internal/cryptocore/cryptocore.go b/internal/cryptocore/cryptocore.go index 43cfdbc..e427350 100644 --- a/internal/cryptocore/cryptocore.go +++ b/internal/cryptocore/cryptocore.go @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ type CryptoCore struct { // Even though the "GCMIV128" feature flag is now mandatory, we must still // support 96-bit IVs here because they were used for encrypting the master // key in gocryptfs.conf up to gocryptfs v1.2. v1.3 switched to 128 bits. +// +// Note: "key" is either the scrypt hash of the password (when decrypting +// a config file) or the masterkey (when finally mounting the filesystem). func New(key []byte, aeadType AEADTypeEnum, IVBitLen int, useHKDF bool, forceDecode bool) *CryptoCore { if len(key) != KeyLen { log.Panic(fmt.Sprintf("Unsupported key length %d", len(key))) |