Re: Encrypted repositories

quoted

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.

So, in short, blobs are not encrypted with the hash of their
contents as encryption keys at all.

No, the blobs are encrypted with their content hash as key, and the
encrypted blob will be stored with it's content hash as object id.

quoted

For the usecases I have in mind (backups, filesharing, etc) this
wouldn't hurt so much, if the objects are compressed before
encryption.

For that kind of usage pattern, you are better off looking at
encrypted tarballs or zip archives.

No, that doesn't give us anything like history, incremental
synchronization, etc, etc.

What I finnaly wanna has is a usual git, just with encryption,
but I can live with loosing differential compression.


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