// Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. // // Common sync protocol for encrypted data. // Update proto_value_conversions{.h,.cc,_unittest.cc} if you change // any fields in this file. syntax = "proto2"; option optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME; option retain_unknown_fields = true; package sync_pb; // Encrypted sync data consists of two parts: a key name and a blob. Key name is // the name of the key that was used to encrypt blob and blob is encrypted data // itself. // // The reason we need to keep track of the key name is that a sync user can // change their passphrase (and thus their encryption key) at any time. When // that happens, we make a best effort to reencrypt all nodes with the new // passphrase, but since we don't have transactions on the server-side, we // cannot guarantee that every node will be reencrypted. As a workaround, we // keep track of all keys, assign each key a name (by using that key to encrypt // a well known string) and keep track of which key was used to encrypt each // node. message EncryptedData { optional string key_name = 1; optional string blob = 2; };