On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:30, dshaw(_at_)jabberwocky(_dot_)com said:
A partial length is needed to handle content as a stream - say some program
that generates gigabytes of data (like a backup). Something large enough
that you really don't want to have to buffer the whole thing before
encrypting it.
And to support > 4GiB files on systems without LFS support.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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