Matthew England wrote:
> As per: http://svnforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=120 ...
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to be able to provide subversion repositories over the web to a
> secure community (possibly of only a couple people to start with). SSL
> login/access authentication will be nice for starters. However, I'd like
> to
> go beyond access control; I'd like to automatically encrypt the file
> contents.
>
> I would like to have Subversion auto-encrypt any file submissions/updates
> to it's repository (with something like a PGP public key), thus requiring
> anyone who gets/reads said file to have some sort of private decryption
> mechanism (like a PGP private key associated with the aforementioned
> public
> key) in order to view/use/read/access any of the contents of said file.
>
> Does anyone know of some existing mechanisms to do this? I suspect I will
> have to build some things myself, but I'm hoping to minimize my efforts.
What you propose above would require source code changes (probably quite
major) to subversion, and doesn't actually obtain any extra security at all,
except in the single circumstance of the server's hard disc being stolen.
Max.
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Received on Fri Oct 29 10:28:48 2004