www.EdmundKirwan.com wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
> I'm given to understand that, when encrypting a file, it can be useful
> to specify a format for the encrypted file which includes headers and
> checksums, etc., as well as the encrypted data itself. This allows the
> tool decrypting the file to verify, for example, that the password used
> for decryption is the same as that used to encrypt the file.
>
I don't know about standards here. If your making a new app with a new
file format, then you get to use whatever makes sense for you. If your
want others to adopt your product then you should consider using an
existing documented format (ZIP, OpenPGP). For a new implementation, I
personally would look at using an XML file format since that seems to be
the safest direction for application interoperability.

dMn