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Is there any max file size limitation like 64GB due to GCM mode?

Open shujaat-github opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

I am worrying if there is any file size limitation due to the GCM mode. Can someone please clear up my confusion?

shujaat-github avatar Sep 15 '22 10:09 shujaat-github

According to gocryptfs cryptography documentation each file is split into 4 kiB blocks and each block gets a new random 128 bit IV, so it doesn't matter if you have N 4 kiB files or one N*4 kiB file.

xnoreq avatar Oct 22 '22 09:10 xnoreq