README.md: the opening no longer says the private key is needed only to restore; a backup never needs it, a deep verify does. ARCHITECTURE.md: the concurrency note says each open database uses one connection, since the metadata export opens a second one. docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md: the size leak is about a secret near the outsider's data in the same blob, not the same chunk, because all new chunks of a blob share one zstd stream. Every path used as link text in the four documents is in backticks. Model: fable-5-1
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@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ The snapshot's database. A restore needs it.
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age.
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It is encrypted because it holds file paths, permissions and owners.
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[DATAMODEL.md](DATAMODEL.md) describes its tables.
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[`DATAMODEL.md`](DATAMODEL.md) describes its tables.
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### `manifest.json.zst`
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@@ -261,15 +261,16 @@ MiB, or 4 MiB at compression levels 1 and 2. A blob is closed at
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`blob_size_limit` and at the end of each configured path. A chunk that is
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already stored is never packed again.
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Data that an outsider writes compresses smaller when it matches a secret in the
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same chunk, so the blob gets smaller. The blob's size therefore shows the
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Data that an outsider writes compresses smaller when it matches a secret near it
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in the same blob, so the blob gets smaller. The blob's size therefore shows the
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outsider whether their data matched the secret.
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This works only when all of these hold:
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- The outsider can write into a backed-up file.
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- The outsider can see the blob sizes at the destination.
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- The outsider's data and the secret land in the same chunk.
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- The outsider's data and the secret are in the same blob, no further apart than
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the stream looks back.
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- The file keeps changing.
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Back up a directory that outsiders can write to as a snapshot of its own.
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