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File::KDBX::IO::HmacBlock(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation File::KDBX::IO::HmacBlock(3pm)

NAME

File::KDBX::IO::HmacBlock - HMAC block stream IO handle

VERSION

version 0.906

DESCRIPTION

Writing to a HMAC-block stream handle will transform the data into a series of blocks. An HMAC is calculated for each block and is included in the output.

Reading from a handle, each block will be verified and authenticated as the blocks are disassembled back into a data stream.

This format helps ensure data integrity and authenticity of KDBX4 files.

Each block is encoded thusly:

  • HMAC - 32 bytes, calculated over [block index (increments starting with 0), block size and data]
  • Block size - Little-endian unsigned 32-bit (counting only the data)
  • Data - String of bytes

The terminating block is an empty block encoded as usual but block size is 0 and there is no data.

ATTRIBUTES

block_size

Desired block size when writing (default: $File::KDBX::IO::HmacBlock::BLOCK_SIZE or 1,048,576 bytes)

key

HMAC-SHA256 key for authenticating the data stream (required)

METHODS

new

    $fh = File::KDBX::IO::HmacBlock->new(%attributes);
    $fh = File::KDBX::IO::HmacBlock->new($fh, %attributes);

Construct a new HMAC-block stream IO handle.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website <https://github.com/chazmcgarvey/File-KDBX/issues>

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

Charles McGarvey <ccm@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Charles McGarvey.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2022-11-20 perl v5.36.0