What is the Streaming Decryption setting in Google Drive? I notice a "Streaming Decryption" option under Encryption Settings. For me, it was not selected by default. The description under this setting is a little unclear:


  Decrypt documents into a stream incrementally.


So my question is what does this mean and what does it do? Does it mean that a given document is only partially decrypted (if there is such a thing) while it is open? Should the average user pay any attention to this setting? I found this HowTo on CNET but it does not explain the setting.

I don't recall whether this was a setting under the former (i.e. pre-Drive) Google Docs app.
Goggle Drive gives you some security options regarding your documents:


You can choose to encrypt all offline documents (that is, documents
stored on your device);
And can also choose to decrypt documents incrementally as they are
streamed to your phone, by selecting the Streaming Decryption, thus having just a small portion of the document decrypted when accessing it. Kinda like watching a compressed video.


Sadly enough couldn't find any official documentation to support my answer on Google, but here's some relevant links:

Access and Edit Files with Google Drive

Google Drive - View files offline in the Google Drive Android app