Re: [FR] Encrypting the repository

From: Francis Galiegue <fge@one2team.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2009, 09:14 UTC
Message-ID: <200904101114.07385.fge@one2team.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090410T084314-918@post.gmane.org>

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?

Also, what are the target systems?

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