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Re: Encrypted repositories

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 6, 2012, 05:37 UTC
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Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz> writes:
> * blobs are encrypted with their (original) content hash as
>   encryption keys
What does this even mean?

Is it expected that anybody who has access to the repository can learn names of objects (e.g. by running "ls .git/objects/??/")? If so, from whom are you protecting your repository?

How does this encryption interact with delta compression employed in pack generation?

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