Treat messages and metadata as attachments #8
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Following @eaon suggestion, this PR treats messages and metadata as attachments in the following way:
From the source side:
nacl.SecretBox
/file
endpointfile_id
and the encryption key to every journalistBasically instead of sending the message and the metadata duplicated, padded and encrypted for every journalist we just send the retrieval information in an encrypted form. The same happens when communicating in the opposite direction.
Open questions:
TODO:
Readme changes will come in the next commits.