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NAME

File::KDBX::IO::HashBlock - Hash block stream IO handle

VERSION

version 0.906

DESCRIPTION

Writing to a hash-block handle will transform the data into a series of blocks. Each block is hashed, and the hash is included with the block in the stream.

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

This format helps ensure data integrity of KDBX3 files.

Each block is encoded thusly:

  • Block index - Little-endian unsigned 32-bit integer, increments starting with 0

  • Hash - 32 bytes

  • Block size - Little-endian unsigned 32-bit (counting only the data)

  • Data - String of bytes

The terminating block is an empty block where hash is 32 null bytes, block size is 0 and there is no data.

ATTRIBUTES

algorithm

Digest algorithm in hash-blocking the stream (default: SHA-256)

block_size

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

METHODS

new

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

Construct a new hash-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.