That is probably a better approach for large files. My initial use case was an application that would write an encrypted file containing passwords to disk. The

That is probably a better approach for large files. My initial use case was an application that would write an encrypted file containing passwords to disk. The files are relatively small, so that method didn't seem worth the additional complexity of something like what you describe. I believe sqlite does something similar at least in some configurations. I might add something like this in the future.