> One advantage is that for millions of small files, batching them together into one monolithic ZIP file allows for faster downloading. As opposed to a round tr

> One advantage is that for millions of small files, batching them together into one monolithic ZIP file allows for faster downloading. As opposed to a round trip to fetch each file. But there could be a happy medium where we batch 1,000 encrypted files to download to your computer then split them up, decrypt them, and cleanup any temporary files before fetching the next 1,000 encrypted files, etc. Well, any such software that didn't have pipelining would be poorly designed. ;) Compare to software like rsync, Unison, etc, which transfer large numbers of small files quickly. Seems like a good solution would be to build on librsync.