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Re: encrypted repositories?

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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 17, 2009, 20:22 UTC
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2009/7/17 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
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> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Matthias Andree wrote:
>>
>> Assume you have a repository where you want to work on embargoed information,
>> so that not even system administrators of the server you're pushing to can get
>> a hold of the cleartext data.
>
> If the server can't ever read it, you're basically limited to just one
> story:

Why couldn't you have the actual code encrypted, but have the server still know about the SHAs etc? You would expose the actual commit structure, but that might be acceptable?

John
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  5. Linus TorvaldsJul 17, 2009
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