From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Encrypted GIT?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:43:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080313174328.GA3783@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803131254580.1656@racer.site>
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:55:11PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>The latter can be remedied (somewhat) by encrypting each object
>individually. In that case, .gitattributes can help (you should be able
>to find a mail to that extent, which I sent no more than 2 weeks ago).
>However, you must make sure that the encryption is repeatable, i.e. two
>different encryption runs _must_ result in _identical_ output.
Any decent file encryption program will never have this characteristic.
It's normally a bad idea from a security perspective.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 8:48 [Q] Encrypted GIT? Alexander Gladysh
2008-03-13 11:47 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-03-13 11:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-13 12:16 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-03-13 12:58 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-13 13:27 ` Alexander Gladysh
2008-03-13 15:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-13 16:00 ` Jeff King
2008-03-13 15:53 ` Jeff King
2008-03-13 16:01 ` Jeff King
2008-03-13 16:12 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-13 16:19 ` Jeff King
2008-03-13 17:43 ` David Brown [this message]
2008-03-13 16:10 ` Thomas Harning
2008-03-13 18:36 ` Luke Lu
2008-03-13 19:15 ` Thomas Harning
2008-03-13 20:06 ` Luke Lu
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