YAR specification feature freeze

Posted by Jesco Freund at Feb. 5, 2011 12:12 a.m.

Today, I froze the design for the YAR container format. Trunk has been branched to 1.0-STABLE. The compiled 1.0-STABLE documentation is available at docs.yarutils.org.

The current state now incorporates all features considered relevant for the 1.0 release. At a short glance, these are:

• Recoverable index for both, fast access and robustness
• Secure hashes (no path to attack symmetric encryption)
• Electronic signatures

This list is far from being complete – just have a look at the specification or the issue tracker. The next two weeks will be dedicated to finalizing the documentation, i. e. tracking down unclear expressions, typos etc. and filling the index and glossary.

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