diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/usage.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/usage.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/usage.rst b/doc/usage.rst index 68bffca..09954e2 100644 --- a/doc/usage.rst +++ b/doc/usage.rst @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ though. Encrypting works as follows: the input file is split into blocks that are just large enough to encrypt with your RSA key. Every block is then encrypted using RSA, and the encrypted blocks are assembled into -the output file. +the output file. This file format is called the VARBLOCK format. Decrypting works in reverse. The encrypted file is separated into encrypted blocks. Those are decrypted, and assembled into the original @@ -253,3 +253,4 @@ As does decryption: :py:func:`rsa.sign` and :py:func:`rsa.verify` work on arbitrarily long files, so they do not have a "bigfile" equivalent. + |