From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Kestenholz Subject: Re: encrypted repositories? Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:30:39 +0000 Message-ID: <1f6632e50907170930w4860b841i3a6028ea47c4d522@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthias Andree X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 17 18:30:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRqKe-0001Iv-DO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:30:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964897AbZGQQan (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:30:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964888AbZGQQal (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:30:41 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com ([209.85.219.226]:37509 "EHLO mail-ew0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964899AbZGQQak (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:30:40 -0400 Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so990532ewy.37 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.119.5 with SMTP id r5mr826417ebc.81.1247848239217; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:30:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Matthias Andree wrote: > > How would one go about this from the user side? I sincerely doubt I have the > resources (time!) to actually implement this in Git. > Maybe you could send around packages created by git-bundle as pgp-encrypted emails, and keep the original on your computer on an encrypted filesystem? You could also encrypt the bundles and put them onto a public server if that suits you better than email. The biggest advantage of this approach would be that it can be done now, and no changes to git itself are required. Matthias