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Longer swarm keys and documentation about swarm in general? #4

Closed bonedaddy closed 6 years ago

bonedaddy commented 6 years ago

Is it possible to use swarm keys that are longer in length for better security?

Also is there any documentation, or technical papers on swarm, and the various key formats, etc...

Thanks.

0zAND1z commented 6 years ago

Longer keys are evidently possible.

Apart from the docs @ experimental features here, I'm afraid we do not have much. Feel free to PR with a wiki for this repo! I'll help where needed specifically.

(Cc'ing @Kubuxu for ack & comments.)

Kubuxu commented 6 years ago

It is currently not possible, swarm key is used as a symmetric key. It is the same length as symmetric key generated after SSL handshake. There isn't really a need for it to be longer at the current time.

bonedaddy commented 6 years ago

Ah okay, thanks for this.