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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Encrypted repositories
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:37:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvcfr4sq3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6682453-92bc-4f3b-9bf3-1910ca6fb307@zcs> (Enrico Weigelt's message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:23:32 +0200 (CEST)")

Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz> writes:

> * blobs are encrypted with their (original) content hash as
>   encryption keys

What does this even mean?

Is it expected that anybody who has access to the repository can
learn names of objects (e.g. by running "ls .git/objects/??/")? If
so, from whom are you protecting your repository?

How does this encryption interact with delta compression employed in
pack generation?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fcbea7c0-b433-414b-abd3-b0e205a96fc5@zcs>
2012-09-06  2:23 ` Encrypted repositories Enrico Weigelt
2012-09-06  5:37   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-09-06 13:56     ` Enrico Weigelt
2012-09-06 19:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-08  3:34         ` Enrico Weigelt
2012-09-08  4:10           ` David Aguilar

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