From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Digulla Subject: [FR] Encrypting the repository Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 10 10:56:49 2009 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 1LsCXR-0007DU-Pd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:56:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762500AbZDJIzJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:55:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761378AbZDJIzI (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:55:08 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60825 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762197AbZDJIzG (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:55:06 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LsCVq-0005QZ-Ph for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:55:02 +0000 Received: from 194.230.154.168 ([194.230.154.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:55:02 +0000 Received: from digulla by 194.230.154.168 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 194.230.154.168 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla