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On 06/24/2015 04:24 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:

>
> OK.  But if the recipient (the server) mangles the data and then never
> unmangles or reads the data, there doesn't seem to be any point in
> storing it.  I must be misunderstanding your statement that the data
> is never read/unmangled.
>

When the storage server sends the data (on request), it decodes the data 
before sending.  I'm currently testing this on a Raspberry PI using a 
random substitution with bytearray.maketrans and bytearray.translate on 
Raspberry PI and it is working quite well.

Thanks.

-Randall