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Add multicipher & AES-256-CBC to multicodec table #121

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  • multicipher for cipher/ encrypted formats
  • AES-256-CBC (a multicipher) for file encryption

tboeckmann and others added 2 commits March 17, 2019 16:43
* multicipher for cipher/ encrypted formats
* AES-256-CBC is commonly used for file encryption
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This proposes multicipher for encryption formats.
We're using AES-256-CBC encryption on IPFS stored files and looking to standardise the multiformat table entry.
Note: the file location is sometimes added to TX data, so the shortest possible code is required to reduce TX data length.

@Stebalien - any thoughts here?

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ghost commented Mar 31, 2019

Where can I read more about multicipher? I found multiple projects called multicipher but none of them look related.

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@lgierth Multicipher refers to the use of multiple ciphers in a program. For example, in https://github.com/mailchain/mailchain#multicipher, default encryption is AES-256-CBC, but other ciphers can be used.

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