Note: a Unix-style tool like "fec" does only one thing -- in this case
erasure coding -- and leaves other tasks to other tools. Other Unix-style
-tools that go well with "fec" include "GNU tar" for packaging up multiple
-files and directories into one bundle, "rzip" for compression, and "GNU
-Privacy Guard" for encryption. It is important to do things in order: first
-package, then compress, then encrypt, then erasure code.
+tools that go well with fec include "GNU tar" for archiving multiple files and
+directories into one file, "rzip" for compression, "GNU Privacy Guard" for
+encryption, and "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