[RFC] Maskwork General Ciphertext Format (v1.0.0.0) [Draft]

[neruthes]

Background

• We need to asymmetrically encrypt some payloads ([RFC] Maskwork General Payload Exchange Format (v1.0.0.0) #225).

Criteria

• Never rely on CRLF.
• Never rely on %20.
• Never rely on \s.
• As human-readable as possible.
• Forward compatibility.
• Have funny memes.

Basic Structure

<MaskworkCipher>
<Ciphertext>
...
</Ciphertext>
<ExtraInfo>
...
</ExtraInfo>
</MaskworkCipher>

Cipher

Encrypt the payload and put the base-64 encoded result into <Ciphertext> node.

ExtraInfo

Subnodes may include:

<EphemeralPublicKeyECDHHybrid v="JQKSLxSwquW+9YBAoS53ns6fuPwOjFyspngZ63ZxnU3Gs93D5cUtWocgkMlhleEx0yKZ1e45U2zp57SUgCJd1w==" encoding="base-64" />
<SemihandshakePublicKeyECDHE v="l7zzHmb3D3JKAm559SFafW/fIk0KrHbZWdNxddV/m5iOSQxOZbQU0j2JuRdVQlRfLM8FCVnfkWRu5lj5S3YZBQ==" encoding="base-64" />

To be continued...

[neruthes]

Dismissed as #225 will be replaced by #502. Will design a counterpart upon #502.