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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: encrypted repositories?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:48:03 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zlazbh4e.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.uxc712eh1e62zd@balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de>

"Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes:

> On a more general note, is someone looking into improving the http://
> efficiency?  Perhaps there are synergies between my plan of (a)
> encryption  and (b) more efficient "dumb" (http/rsync/...) protocol
> use.

There was idea about improving http:// efficiency, but it was via
crating git-over-HTTP aka. "smart" HTTP server, i.e. you would have to
have DAG exposed, like for git:// and ssh://


On the other hand for http:// server need only "dumb" web server, and
additional metadata generated by git-update-server-info.  It is client
who does "walking" the DAG, so all data including server metadata can
be encrypted, and decrypted on-the-fly by client.  

I don't know though what information leakage you would get from
existence of loose objects and packfiles, and their sizes.  Probably
negligible...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-17 15:14 encrypted repositories? Matthias Andree
2009-07-17 16:06 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-07-17 20:22   ` Jakub Narebski
2009-07-17 16:30 ` Matthias Kestenholz
2009-07-17 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-17 20:22   ` John Tapsell
2009-07-17 20:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-17 20:42       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-18 19:09         ` encrypted repositories? with git-torrent? Thomas Koch
2009-07-20 12:13           ` Matthias Andree
2009-07-20 12:09   ` encrypted repositories? Matthias Andree
2009-07-20 13:48     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-07-21  8:30       ` Matthias Andree
2009-07-20 15:30     ` Jeff King
2009-07-21  8:25       ` Matthias Andree
2009-07-23 10:40         ` Jeff King
2012-08-02 14:52 ` J-S-B

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