From: Geoffrey Lee <geoffreyj.lee@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [FR] Encrypting the repository
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:18:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d7aaa40904100318k5aa779c4h95cd01727eafbb35@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090410T084314-918@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Aaron Digulla <digulla@hepe.com> wrote:
> 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?
Why in the world would you want to modify Git to do that? Just use an
existing encryption solution. If you need to use a USB drive, then use
disk encryption. If you need to do it online, then use SSH.
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Security/Products_and_Tools/Cryptography/
-Geoffrey Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-10 10:20 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
2009-04-10 10:18 ` Geoffrey Lee [this message]
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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