id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
86	add a check block to the front of the plaintext, to verify the correct key	warner	nobody	"A cheap way to verify that the decoding process is using the correct AES key would be to add a block of well-known contents at the beginning of the plaintext during encryption, and to verify that it is still present during decryption.

This might also detect certain failures in FEC, although there are probably a number that would go undetected. It would also not catch bugs like the AES-CTR-mode bug we had (which was only triggered by non-blocksize reads).

But it would be cheap, and would detect the most common case (somebody mis-typing their URI).
"	enhancement	closed	minor	eventually	code-encoding	0.6.0	wontfix	encoding integrity