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This crate defines and implements the encrypted offline storage format used by the Stronghold ecosystem.
The format has a header with version and magic bytes to appease applications wishing to provide file-type detection.
The data stored within a snapshot is considered opaque and uses 256 bit keys. It provides recommended ways to derive the snapshot encryption key from a user provided password. The format also allows using an authenticated data bytestring to further protect the offline snapshot files (one might consider using a secondary user password strengthened by an HSM).
The current version of the format is using X25519 together with an ephemeral key to derive a shared key for the symmetric XChaCha20 cipher and uses the Poly1305 message authentication algorithm. Future versions, when the demands for larger snapshot sizes and/or random access is desired, might consider encrypting smaller chunks (B-trees?) or similar using per chunk derived ephemeral keys.
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and optional associated data
and writes the ciphertext to the specifed output