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Borg 2.0
TW edited this page Sep 16, 2022
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| Status: | implementing |
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| Time frame: | n/a |
- Encryption: get rid of AES-CTR mode and use "session keys". This is mainly motivated by:
- With AES-CTR and a global AES + MAC key one has to track the counter values perfectly to avoid leaking XORed plaintexts. This means extra synchronization and complexity between clients (and in a multi-threaded environment, between threads).
- Using separate "session keys" in multiple threads makes multi-threading easier. Also, one can just start from 0 for the IVs of each session key.
- Data encrypted using "session keys" could be more easily moved between repositories, which would allow efficient replication. This is not possible with a global CTR, since it may never repeat
- Using "session keys" could allow to freely choose from a set of encryption algorithms - one algorithm is not the best for all machines.
- use more modern / faster AEAD ciphers: AES-OCB and chacha20-poly1305
- use a more modern KDF: argon2
- concept of related repositories: using same chunker secret and id-hash key material.
- borg transfer: enables copying archives from one repo to another related repository.
- have separate encrypted metadata and data in a repo object
- better and more symmetric way to deal with hardlinks: hlid
- clean up the CLI
- in general: get rid of legacy