From: zooko Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:39:20 +0000 (+0530) Subject: zfec: README: recommend 7zip instead of rzip and simplify encryption recommendation X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/pf/content/%22news.html//%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6a512caecfe88fb9fd58377dd442e7cc73dd17f4;p=tahoe-lafs%2Fzfec.git zfec: README: recommend 7zip instead of rzip and simplify encryption recommendation darcs-hash:2f93e110806ac272a8ac6fb592178c71b4b801c1 --- diff --git a/zfec/README.txt b/zfec/README.txt index 72bbcaa..e34eee2 100644 --- a/zfec/README.txt +++ b/zfec/README.txt @@ -105,16 +105,15 @@ input to the encoding step. The bin/ directory contains two Unix-style, command-line tools "zfec" and "zunfec". Execute "zfec --help" or "zunfec --help" for usage instructions. -Note: a Unix-style tool like "zfec" does only one thing -- in this case erasure -coding -- and leaves other tasks to other tools. Other Unix-style tools that go -well with zfec include "GNU tar" or "7z" a.k.a. "p7zip" for archiving multiple -files and directories into one file, "rzip" for compression, and "GNU Privacy -Guard" for encryption or "sha256sum" for integrity. It is important to do -things in order: first archive, then compress, then either encrypt or sha256sum, -then erasure code. Note that if GNU Privacy Guard is used for privacy, then it -will also ensure integrity, so the use of sha256sum is unnecessary in that case. -Note that if 7z is used for archiving then it also does compression, so you -don't need a separate compressor in that case. +Note: a Unix-style tool like "zfec" does only one thing -- in this case +erasure coding -- and leaves other tasks to other tools. Other Unix-style +tools that go well with zfec include "GNU tar" for archiving multiple files +and directories into one file, "rzip" or "lrzip" for compression, and "GNU +Privacy Guard" for encryption or "sha256sum" for integrity. It is important +to do things in order: first archive, then compress, then either encrypt or +sha256sum, then erasure code. Note that if GNU Privacy Guard is used for +privacy, then it will also ensure integrity, so the use of sha256sum is +unnecessary in that case. * Performance Measurements