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Just skimmed it, looks useful, with mentioning keypair I'm assuming they use RSA keys or something similar. Why the choice for asymmetric encryption?



The code says it uses the public key for uploading/encryption, and the private key for downloading/decryption. It's useful to be able to split writing and reading with cryptographic guarantees, for security or organisational purposes. E.g. if a client only has the public key and should it be compromised, it can't read the data. Or it allows you to have less strict access controls on uploading clients.




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