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authorChristophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>2026-09-28 16:24:12 +0200
committerChristophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>2026-09-28 16:24:12 +0200
commita4b36e5fe31cb671a4cbbdaad75746cd68b601fe (patch)
tree48f9f4fb76f91e063c436ace344d5220611de8b5 /packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py
parent5330896c0e8023053d4cd15961b2ae0482686ca6 (diff)
downloadmeshbay-a4b36e5fe31cb671a4cbbdaad75746cd68b601fe.tar.gz
refactor: remove the unused GroupIndex.serialize chain
serialize/deserialize had no production caller, and took with them the per-chunk signature, the ChaCha20 cipher variant and the zstandard dependency. Key derivations are unchanged. Docs corrected, including design §4.3's claim that chunks are compressed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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diff --git a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py
index 3b45dba..260e362 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ it is an oversight. The node holds the GEK for its own group, so unlike the inde
this direction seals *towards* the node: it opens the payload before it writes
anything to disk, and refuses a chunk that does not open rather than guessing.
-Purpose separation is deliberate. `GroupIndex.serialize()` reuses
-`chunk_key_aes(gek, file_hash, chunk_index)` with a pseudo-file ("the index as chunk
-0 of a virtual index file"), which borrows a file's key space for something that is
-not a file. Each purpose here derives its own subkey instead.
+Purpose separation is deliberate. The alternative — reusing
+`chunk_key_aes(gek, file_hash, chunk_index)` with a pseudo-file, "the index as chunk
+0 of a virtual index file" — borrows a file's key space for something that is not a
+file. Each purpose here derives its own subkey instead.
"""
from __future__ import annotations