[Cryptography] Cryptogit

Guus Sliepen guus at sliepen.org
Tue Nov 10 03:42:56 EST 2015


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 11:53:39PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> Anyhoo. Let us imagine for a moment that it is really easy to connect
> up to a git repo in the cloud. On your Google drive or your 1Tb
> OneDrive or whatever.
> 
> Wouldn't it be really nice to be able to automatically encrypt the
> data you store in the remote .git repo?

What do you mean with "data"? Does that include all metadata? Including
the very filenames (which can be the hash of the contents)? Maybe even
the file sizes? If not, the cloud provider can probably get useful
information out of it.

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.org>


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