Re: [Subclipse-users] Client-Side File Content Encryption/Decryption

rod_at_softina.com wrote on 18.04.2008 12:10:15:

> Hi,
>
> do you have some option for content encryption "on the fly" before
sending
> data to the Subversion server and decryption this content "on the fly"
> after recieving it from the Subversion server?

Well, yes you could do that, but then you would lose the ability to store
and transmit deltas over the wire. This in effect would increase the size
of the repository and needlessly prolong all the network operations.

> It will be nice to have such optional feature in Subclipse (this is a
> client-side feature, sure!) because my shared hosting provider is
> supporting Subversion server setup but I would like to block any
> possibility for other customers to get access to the my versioned data.

There are other options to achieve this, encryption is not one of them.

Br,

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