Could the encryption be made optional?

[ranrub]

I would like my files to be accessible on the s3 repo for distribution via e.g. cloudfront.

[flomlo]

Hi!

I would be interested in making encryption optiona as welll, though my main use case is the local storage backend. There are filesystems with built-in compression and that would be a neat way to make use of it. In my case it would reduce the bloat by a factor of ~3.
Furthermore, I do like the increased transparency.

I had a look at the branch created 2019, which introduced the option, but never made it into main.

Would you consider accepting a PR with the code from 2019 adapted to the current version? I can test it with the local backend, but I don't have any means to test it on S3.

[jasonwhite]

Would you consider accepting a PR with the code from 2019 adapted to the current version? I can test it with the local backend, but I don't have any means to test it on S3.

Yes, I'm always open to PRs! Adapting that old PR to recent changes should be relatively straightforward. The main thing is that the impl Storage for Either should no longer be necessary because Box is now used to abstract away the composition of backends.

When you have a PR, I can test it on S3. (I have a free-tier account that I test with.)

[greyltc]

I'm working on implementing this here: https://github.com/greyltc/rudolfs/tree/encryption-optional based on what you've already done in #8 Jason.
Bear with me here please, this is my first time rusting. At present, what I've got there in greyltc@5c0ea44 completely diables encryption in a non-optional way. I've played around with it a bit, and this seems to work fine. Now I'll see about adding back in the option to turn encryption on (I'm not sure I understand why so much Either code needs to exist for this in the original PR).

[jasonwhite]

@greyltc I went ahead and revived my old PR: #67. Includes tests and everything. Let me know if this works for you.

[greyltc]

@jasonwhite tested. working like a charm! thanks very much!

[greyltc]

@jasonwhite could we get a 0.3.7 tag for this?

[jasonwhite]

@greyltc Done.