From 94eaa2e335870134767a6474bd470ec3017ac355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Savage Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 23:42:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly mention compression, see intro for details --- doc/man/man3/crypto_lock.3monocypher | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man/man3/crypto_lock.3monocypher b/doc/man/man3/crypto_lock.3monocypher index db63368..06cf36d 100644 --- a/doc/man/man3/crypto_lock.3monocypher +++ b/doc/man/man3/crypto_lock.3monocypher @@ -94,11 +94,9 @@ The secret message. Its content will be kept hidden from attackers. Its length however, will .Em not . -Make sure message lengths do not leak secret information. -This has happened before with variable-length voice -encoding software. -Solutions to mitigate this include constant-length encodings and -padding. +Be careful when combining encryption with compression. See +.Xr intro 3monocypher +for details. .It Fa cipher_text The encrypted message, to be transmitted over the network. .El -- 2.47.3