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Should this implementation enforce ltfs hash xattr format and names #616

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@hugo-hur

In the SNIA documents it is clearly stated that only specific ltfs.hash.<hashtype>:s xattrs and formats are conforming:

hashtype algorithm bits hex chars
crc32sum ANSI X3.66 32 8
md5sum RFC 1321 128 32
sha1sum FIPS 180-4 160 40
sha256sum FIPS 180-4 256 64
sha512sum FIPS 180-4 512 128

Currently this implementation allows for writing any values and with any names into the ltfs.hash.<hashtype> xattrs.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior on linux builds (all examples here use non conforming attribute names):

setfattr -n user.ltfs.hash.sha256 -v "tooshort"        file   # text, wrong length (spec wants 64 hex chars)
setfattr -n user.ltfs.hash.crc32  -v 0xdeadbeef        file   # 0x… = raw BINARY bytes (spec wants UTF-8 hex text)
setfattr -n user.ltfs.hash.md5    -v 0sBgYGBgYG…==     file   # 0s… = raw bytes from base64

Expected behavior
LTFS should prevent from writing non-conformant information in the xatrrs.

Any thoughts on this?

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