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| author | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-09-28 16:24:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-09-28 16:24:12 +0200 |
| commit | a4b36e5fe31cb671a4cbbdaad75746cd68b601fe (patch) | |
| tree | 48f9f4fb76f91e063c436ace344d5220611de8b5 /packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py | |
| parent | 5330896c0e8023053d4cd15961b2ae0482686ca6 (diff) | |
| download | meshbay-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>
Diffstat (limited to 'packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/groupbox.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
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 |