Enrico Weigelt [off-list ref] 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?
Hi,
Enrico Weigelt [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
* 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?
Well, everybody can access the objects, but they're encrypted,
so you need the repo key (which, of course isn't contained in
the repo itself ;-p) to decrypt them.
The whole tree will still be consistent even without encryption
support (so, gc etc shouldn't break), but to actually _use_ the
repo (eg. checkout or adding new commits), you'll need the
encryption support and the repo key (well, committing should
theoretically even work with diffrent repo key, even this doesn't
make much sense ;-)).
How does this encryption interact with delta compression employed
in pack generation?
Probably not at all ;-o
For the usecases I have in mind (backups, filesharing, etc) this
wouldn't hurt so much, if the objects are compressed before encryption.
cu
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