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From: Aaron Digulla <digulla@hepe.com>
To: Francis Galiegue <fge@one2team.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [FR] Encrypting the repository
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:09:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DF28E4.3070609@hepe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904101114.07385.fge@one2team.com>

Francis Galiegue wrote:
> Le vendredi 10 avril 2009, vous avez écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need a way to safely synchronize data between several places using an 
> unsafe
>> storage (USB stick, Internet drive). So my question is: How much work would 
> it
>> be to patch GIT to encrypt all files in the repository using AES-256?
>>
>> I'm aware that this leaves an issue unresolved (where should I store the
>> password so that GIT doesn't have to ask for it all the time?) but one step 
> at a
>> time, please :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> 
> Why don't you just create an archive and encrypt that archive, instead of 
> encrypting every file?

Because I don't want to loose the change history.

> Also, what are the target systems?

Linux and Windows.

Regards,

-- 
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark
"It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination.
Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits."
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-10 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-10  8:49 [FR] Encrypting the repository Aaron Digulla
2009-04-10  9:14 ` Francis Galiegue
2009-04-10 11:09   ` Aaron Digulla [this message]
2009-04-10 10:18 ` Geoffrey Lee
2009-04-10 10:30 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-04-10 11:11   ` Aaron Digulla
2009-04-10 11:17     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-04-11  2:03     ` Nicolas Pitre

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