1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 // Common sync protocol for encrypted data.
7 // Update proto_value_conversions{.h,.cc,_unittest.cc} if you change
8 // any fields in this file.
12 option optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME;
13 option retain_unknown_fields = true;
17 // Encrypted sync data consists of two parts: a key name and a blob. Key name is
18 // the name of the key that was used to encrypt blob and blob is encrypted data
21 // The reason we need to keep track of the key name is that a sync user can
22 // change their passphrase (and thus their encryption key) at any time. When
23 // that happens, we make a best effort to reencrypt all nodes with the new
24 // passphrase, but since we don't have transactions on the server-side, we
25 // cannot guarantee that every node will be reencrypted. As a workaround, we
26 // keep track of all keys, assign each key a name (by using that key to encrypt
27 // a well known string) and keep track of which key was used to encrypt each
29 message EncryptedData {
30 optional string key_name = 1;
31 optional string blob = 2;