From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:39:12 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Git-over-TLS (gits://) client side support Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1263388786-6880-1-git-send-email-ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> On 1/13/10, Ilari Liusvaara wrote: > This is client-side support for Git-over-TLS (gits://). gits:// is > version of git:// protocol layered on top of TLS (Transport Layer > Security). If using TLS, it is autenticated transport supporing > fetching, pushing and remote archive (plus special commands that > have server-dependent meaning). > > Needs GnuTLS, and adds new make option NO_GNUTLS that disables builing > this code. > > Supported underlying stream transports include TCP/IP, TCP/IPv6 and > Unix domain sockets (including Linux abstract namespace). > > Supported authentication mechanisms include passwords, keypairs and on > some platforms Unix authentication if using unix domain sockets. Server > is authenticated using keypair (hostkey). > > The patch is split into two parts because it would be otherwise be > too large for this list. Included are all the needed client side > utilities (some of them run gpg internally). Can we rely on an external program, like stunnel, to do the job instead? -- Duy