From 398526317136cf576e8370e44dbd2ab2fc70d208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gregor Kleen Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:38:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Chunk seed is generated per /repository/ --- docs/internals.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/internals.rst b/docs/internals.rst index a5e00eff3..bfe6c1848 100644 --- a/docs/internals.rst +++ b/docs/internals.rst @@ -249,9 +249,9 @@ can be used to tune the chunker parameters, the default is: - HASH_WINDOW_SIZE = 4095 [B] (`0xFFF`) The buzhash table is altered by XORing it with a seed randomly generated once -for the archive, and stored encrypted in the keyfile. This is to prevent chunk -size based fingerprinting attacks on your encrypted repo contents (to guess -what files you have based on a specific set of chunk sizes). +for the repository, and stored encrypted in the keyfile. This is to prevent +chunk size based fingerprinting attacks on your encrypted repo contents (to +guess what files you have based on a specific set of chunk sizes). For some more general usage hints see also ``--chunker-params``.