From 03c295d0a904a6b20d0a92f1c20f89cc24d2743e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Schwerdel <schwerdel@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:06:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added comment

---
 src/beacon.rs | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/beacon.rs b/src/beacon.rs
index e3bbc91..b1319e9 100644
--- a/src/beacon.rs
+++ b/src/beacon.rs
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ impl BeaconSerializer {
     }
     
     fn encrypt_data(&self, data: &mut Vec<u8>) {
+        // Note: the 1 byte seed is only meant to protect from random changes,
+        // not malicious ones. For full protection, at least 8 bytes (~12 
+        // characters) would be needed.
         let seed = sha512(data as &[u8])[0];
         self.mask_with_keystream(data as &mut [u8], TYPE_DATA, seed);
         data.push(seed ^ self.get_keystream(TYPE_SEED, 0, 0)[0]);
@@ -387,6 +390,7 @@ fn decode_invalid() {
     assert_eq!(2, ser.decode_internal("juWwKjuWwKhjVTYjbwJjtYAZlMfEj7IDO55LN", None, 2000).len());
 }
 
+
 #[test]
 fn encode_decode() {
     let ser = BeaconSerializer::new(b"vpnc", b"mysecretkey");