From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" Subject: [RFC] Adding a challenge-response authentication method to git:// Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:26:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20080813162644.GC12200@cuci.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 13 18:29:01 2008 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 1KTJCh-0003tr-3t for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:28:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752402AbYHMQ0q (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:26:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751583AbYHMQ0q (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:26:46 -0400 Received: from aristoteles.cuci.nl ([212.125.128.18]:40585 "EHLO aristoteles.cuci.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751436AbYHMQ0p (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:26:45 -0400 Received: by aristoteles.cuci.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7D1F75465; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:26:44 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: What are the opinions on adding a basic challenge-response type authentication mechanism to the native git protocol? I.e. the authentication would be a simple one, which uses SHA1 (surprise ;-) to actually encrypt username/password/salt and authenticate the user. I'm willing to do the work, if there are no objections. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "And now for something *completely* different!"