I would mention blinding in passing in the use case section, not just in security. I wrote the tool off with my concern about revealing short files, but comment

I would mention blinding in passing in the use case section, not just in security. I wrote the tool off with my concern about revealing short files, but comment here Shorter proofs can be done with Verkle trees, https://web.archive.org/web/20231115115627/https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/06/18/verkle.html https://web.archive.org/web/20231115115627/https://vitalik.c... but I think it's incompatible with other aspect of this use case. My first impulse is using a prefix nonce, but the file system secrecy just conflicts with it too much I think of the rolling-hash-split block store, tarsnap-style, as a different variant, tough indirection through tar (concatenation), compression, or rolling hash would cancel out benefits of the simple correspondence to structure matching file system layout.