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The process of encrypting individual files on a storage medium and permitting access to the encrypted data only after proper authentication is provided.

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How to encrypt a file for random access

You basically want a full disk encryption mode for a block cipher; XTS mode seems to be the current standard. In your case each "disk block" is actually a file offset. Note that using a stream cipher …
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Is the decompression of compressed and encrypted data without decryption also theoretically ...

An alternative approach to accomplishing your goal: the way incremental backups are typically accomplished on compressed and encrypted data is with convergent encryption. Note that in this case the b …
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