Version 0.16-beta2 released

[Shachar S. <rsy...@sh...>]

Hi all,


First of all, does anyone even read these mails? I know there are quite
a few people subscribed to this list (about 11), and I just wanted to
make sure that I'm not just blowing air here.


Back to the subject at hand - beta 2 is out.

Main changes from Beta 1 - almost everything. Really.

The file format for storing the mapping between the encrypted and plain
text file names changed to a minimalistic format. In fact, if you run it
through "tr '\0' '\n'" you will get a plain text file (assuming no file
name contains a newline, of course). Due to some feedback from Tom Metro
(as well as some internal dialog), I've gone off the idea of having the
external file hold all meta-information. Instead, the meta information
will be encrypted inside the file itself (in the future - 0.16 still
doesn't have that). Each file will also know its own unencrypted file
name, so that we can regenerate the filemap file from the files present
in the directory (assuming we have the proper keys, of course). This
change is planned for 0.18 (0.17 will have signing of the encrypted
file, which is more important for Lingnu's backup service).

Due to this change, and to avoid confusion with the "filelist" option,
the whole terminology changed. The translation file is now called
"filemap". The command line options also changed accordingly.

The only thing missing from this beta release before it can be called
"0.16" is deleting encrypted versions of deleted plain text files when
the file names are encrypted. This is not going to be very easy to
implement efficiently, so it will take a little time.

Go get it, and tell me what you think (please, do tell me what you
think. Over 50 people downloaded beta1, and not a single feedback was
given).

             Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
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