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| author | drebs <drebs@leap.se> | 2015-05-13 16:10:59 -0300 |
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| committer | drebs <drebs@leap.se> | 2015-05-13 16:10:59 -0300 |
| commit | 0aaed6bd89e25fa52d147cddc265175a15dfcad2 (patch) | |
| tree | 64339700250dc83e998169c760af1e4d8186f0a3 /docs/design | |
| parent | bc86ff23dfa9ad036c77087e925b2542a386e94b (diff) | |
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diff --git a/docs/design/soledad.md b/docs/design/soledad.md index a0eeed4..a12ab4c 100644 --- a/docs/design/soledad.md +++ b/docs/design/soledad.md @@ -92,22 +92,25 @@ For example, create a document, modify it and sync: Storage secret ----------------------------------- -The `storage_secret` is a long, randomly generated key used to derive encryption keys for both the documents stored on the server and the local replica of these documents. The `storage_secret` is block encrypted using a key derived from the user's password and saved locally on disk in a file called `<user_uid>.secret`, which contains a JSON structure that looks like this: +The `storage_secret` is a long randomly generated key used to derive the encryption keys for the data stored both in the server and in the local replica. The `storage_secret` is block encrypted using a key derived from the user's password and saved locally on disk in a file called `<user_uid>.secret`, which contains a JSON structure that looks like this: { - "storage_secrets": { - "<secret_id>": { - "kdf": "scrypt", - "kdf_salt": "<b64 repr of salt>", - "kdf_length": <key_length>, - "cipher": "aes256", - "length": <secret_length>, - "secret": "<encrypted storage_secret>", + 'active_secret': '<secret_id>', + 'storage_secrets': { + '<secret_id>': { + 'kdf': 'scrypt', + 'kdf_salt': '<b64 repr of salt>', + 'kdf_length': <key_length>, + 'cipher': 'aes256', + 'length': <secret_length>, + 'secret': '<encrypted storage_secret>', } } 'kdf': 'scrypt', 'kdf_salt': '<b64 repr of salt>', - 'kdf_length: <key length> + 'kdf_length: <key length>, + '_mac_method': 'hmac', + '_mac': '<mac>', } The `storage_secrets` entry is a map that stores information about available storage keys. Currently, Soledad uses only one storage key per provider, but this may change in the future. |