Comment by mring33621
10 days ago
I've been just re-encrypting to CTR and streaming from that. You can stream ok from a big, single GCM file, but random-access has to faked by always restarting at 0...
10 days ago
I've been just re-encrypting to CTR and streaming from that. You can stream ok from a big, single GCM file, but random-access has to faked by always restarting at 0...
Problem with CTR is that it is not a block-based cypher, which means you cannot append to existing file. For example if you have multipart file uploads, this would just not work. Also CTR lacks checksum integrity, it only XORs the bytes.
And yeah, like I said, random access is possible but you have to write your own "driver" for it.