Re: [Q] Encrypted GIT?

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Hi,

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:16:44PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:55:11PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The latter can be remedied (somewhat) by encrypting each object 
> > > individually.  In that case, .gitattributes can help (you should be 
> > > able to find a mail to that extent, which I sent no more than 2 
> > > weeks ago).  However, you must make sure that the encryption is 
> > > repeatable, i.e. two different encryption runs _must_ result in 
> > > _identical_ output.
> > 
> > afaik, this is not the case for gpg.
> 
> No, and you wouldn't want to use gpg because of the overhead it adds
> around an encrypted message.

To the contrary: if your files are small (which they are most likely), you 
_want_ the overhead, in order to make the encryption harder to crack.

AFAICT gpg is a good all-round encryption tool, and reinventing the wheel 
just for encrypting things in a git repository just does not cut it.

Ciao,
Dscho

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