From 4e819b80cc7d8d3c3316995dc78abeb3c5145f13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Aaron D. Lee" <aaron.daniel.lee@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 22:45:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Improve progress phase messages for key derivation

Show "Deriving keys (may take a moment)..." during Argon2 phase
to set user expectations on slower devices

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 frontends/web/static/js/stegasoo.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frontends/web/static/js/stegasoo.js b/frontends/web/static/js/stegasoo.js
index 21ddefb..4ad13d0 100644
--- a/frontends/web/static/js/stegasoo.js
+++ b/frontends/web/static/js/stegasoo.js
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ const Stegasoo = {
     formatPhase(phase) {
         const phases = {
             'starting': 'Starting...',
-            'initializing': 'Initializing...',
+            'initializing': 'Deriving keys (may take a moment)...',
             'embedding': 'Embedding data...',
             'saving': 'Saving image...',
             'finalizing': 'Finalizing...',
@@ -1243,8 +1243,11 @@ const Stegasoo = {
     formatDecodePhase(phase) {
         const phases = {
             'starting': 'Starting...',
+            'initializing': 'Deriving keys (may take a moment)...',
+            'loading': 'Deriving keys (may take a moment)...',
             'reading': 'Reading image...',
             'extracting': 'Extracting data...',
+            'decoding': 'Decoding data...',
             'decrypting': 'Decrypting...',
             'verifying': 'Verifying...',
             'finalizing': 'Finalizing...',