id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
865	Document current crypto and encoding in detail	davidsarah	ioerror	"Other than the code, the most comprehensive description of Tahoe's current crypto and erasure encoding that I'm aware of is the ''Storage Security and Survivability Workshop 2008'' paper: http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/lafs.pdf. However, that paper does not give the level of detail required for a spec or for a thorough security analysis (for example, it doesn't specify encryption modes or the encoding of inputs to crypto primitives).

This is an obstacle to designing the new crypto, since we don't want to lose features (unless we drop them deliberately) or make mistakes that were avoided in the original design."	task	new	major	eventually	documentation	1.5.0		docs security