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Sear: An always-encrypted tar-like file archive format
- Perceptes 7y agoSubmitting this re: the recent discussion about PGP alternatives. It seems right in line with the types of tools that were being suggested for replacing specific use cases of PGP. Written by Tony Arcieri, who is well-regarded in the cryptography community.
- blacksqr 7y agoWhen they said tar-like, I imagined they meant individual files could be extracted from an archive, but it seems not.
- agucova 7y ago"However, it also provides seekability, allowing individual files within the archive to be decrypted, in addition to seeking within those files"; I don't it's implemented yet, but the protocol seems to have that capability.
- baxter001 7y agoNOTE: sear is presently vaporware, so this won't do a whole lot yet.
- saagarjha 7y agoHa, interesting that the project describes themselves that way!
- inlined 7y agoWhat is the benefit of this over ZIP with extensions? That the headers are encrypted rather than falsified?
- hprotagonist 7y agoOrdoEmacs grows one step closer.