Re: [RFC 0/2] Git-over-TLS (gits://) client side support

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On 1/13/10, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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