On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:37:19PM -0600, Alec Kloss wrote:
On 2010-01-15 22:23, Ton Boelens wrote:
Hi,
At the moment, my SVN repository is snvsynced to a server in another
location. I would like to make this remote repository encrypted on the
file level, so that even somebody who has physically access to this
server, cannot read the contents of the files.
I have searched in the svn manual, with Google and in the past couple
of months posts I have of this mailing list, but I could find no
reference.
Does that mean that there is no way to design a solution to this
requirement?
I don't think this is built into subversion. I've asked about a
similar feature in the past and not gotten anywhere. It would be
pretty slick to have a repository session key that is
pgp-encrypted for the committers/reviewers of the repository that
all files (and network traffic) is encrypted with. If the svn
clients managed it all well, it could be pretty seamless. A new
committer would be added to the repository session key, and
revoking a committer would require generating a new key and
encrypting new revisions with it. It would be a great feature
because you could distribute a secure repository onto a public
subversion server and only send private data to and from it.
I agree, that would be great functionality. However, I would like to
have the encrypted remote copy this winter :-)
Ton
