##### Figure 1 - Secure Channel construction

```
plaintext   := chunk_0          ||       chunk_1          ||       chunk_2          ||       ...
                 |                         |                         |

	"io"
	"strings"

	"github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon"
)

// getDataBlockLen - get length of data blocks from encoded blocks.
func getDataBlockLen(enBlocks [][]byte, dataBlocks int) int {
	size := 0
	// Figure out the data block length.
	for _, block := range enBlocks[:dataBlocks] {
		size += len(block)
	}
	return size
}

// Writes all the data blocks from encoded blocks until requested

func commonSetDriveCount(divisibleSize uint64, setCounts []uint64) (setSize uint64) {
	// prefers setCounts to be sorted for optimal behavior.
	if divisibleSize < setCounts[len(setCounts)-1] {
		return divisibleSize
	}

	// Figure out largest value of total_drives_in_erasure_set which results
	// in least number of total_drives/total_drives_erasure_set ratio.
	prevD := divisibleSize / setCounts[0]
	for _, cnt := range setCounts {

	// Iterate over test data set and run tests
	for _, data := range jwtTestData {
		data := data
		t.Run(data.name, func(t *testing.T) {
			// Parse the token
			var err error

			// Figure out correct claims type
			switch claims := data.claims.(type) {
			case *MapClaims:
				if data.tokenString == "" {
					data.tokenString = mapClaimsToken(claims)
				}

	objQuorum int // Number of disks needed for an object to 'exist'.

	// An optimization request only an 'n' amount of versions from xl.meta
	// to avoid resolving all versions to figure out the latest 'version'
	// for ListObjects, ListObjectsV2
	requestedVersions int

	bucket string // Name of the bucket. Used for generating cached fileinfo.

							SkipRebalancing:   true, // make sure we skip the decommissioned pool
							NoAuditLog:        true,
						})
					var failure bool
					if err != nil && !isErrObjectNotFound(err) && !isErrVersionNotFound(err) {
						rebalanceLogIf(ctx, err)
						failure = true
					}

					if !failure {
						z.updatePoolStats(poolIdx, bucket, version)
						rebalanced++
					}

	"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
)

const (
	// Block size used for all internal operations version 1.

	// TLDR..
	// Not used anymore xl.meta captures the right blockSize
	// so blockSizeV2 should be used for all future purposes.
	// this value is kept here to calculate the max API
	// requests based on RAM size for existing content.
	blockSizeV1 = 10 * humanize.MiByte

	// Block size used in erasure coding version 2.

			size:       4,
			actualSize: 4,
		},
		{
			desc:       "Failure md5 mismatch.",
			src:        bytes.NewReader([]byte("abcd")),
			size:       4,
			actualSize: 4,
			md5hex:     "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427f",
			err: BadDigest{
				"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427f",
				"e2fc714c4727ee9395f324cd2e7f331f",
			},
		},
		{
			desc:       "Failure sha256 mismatch.",
			src:        bytes.NewReader([]byte("abcd")),

				// - Do not consume disks which are not reachable
				//   unformatted or simply not accessible for some reason.
				//
				// - Do not consume disks which are being healed
				//
				// - Future: skip busy disks
				return
			}

			mu.Lock()
			newDisks = append(newDisks, disks[i])
			mu.Unlock()
		}()
	}
	wg.Wait()
	return newDisks
}

// it returns false only if there is a conversion failure.
func (v Value) bytesToInt() (int64, bool) {
	bytes, _ := v.ToBytes()
	i, err := strconv.ParseInt(strings.TrimSpace(string(bytes)), 10, 64)
	return i, err == nil
}

// Converts untyped value into float. The bool return implies success
// - it returns false only if there is a conversion failure.
func (v Value) bytesToFloat() (float64, bool) {