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robryk on Nostr: nprofile1q…a65q8 nprofile1q…cfpdh If there's a maybe-low-bandwidth way to pass on ...



If there's a maybe-low-bandwidth way to pass on information alongside the ciphertext that's public (attacker can read) but trustworthy (attacker can't modify) I'd transmit hashes and filenames with it.

If there isn't one, I'd sign something (e.g. with minisign): either the encrypted file itself or the kind of manifest I described above. If you want to prevent the attacker from swapping files around you need to either go a manifest-like route or use sth like the "trusted comment" in minisign to specify which file it is, and verify that at decryption-and-verification time.