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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0 |
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Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:18:21 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
> People have tried to abuse the encryption form for one-to-many
> purposes before now (either via a shared secret, which defeats
> the point, or via encrypting multiple times, which is an
> infeasible use of resources). It doesn't work - at best, it is
> equivalent to a shared secret system.
This sounds like just a configuration issue. A good point but more
about how to use the proposed feature rather than an argument against
it.
If I have N sites to whom I need to xmit an encrypted archive, there's
no reason I can't make N separately encrypted mirrors.
In fact, one of my arguments against the feature -- that you don't
want an _archival_ format encrypted -- also doesn't hold up. Only
the publicly visible mirrors need encrypting.
The only argument against I see left is that while encryption of
changesets, import copies, CONTINUATION files, log messages,
archive-cached revisions and (perhaps) checksum files is easy --
encryption of category, branch, version, and revision _names_ is not.
That's why wonder if a VPN isn't a better solution.
But even there, duh -- is there some reason not to use just sftp?
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Dustin Sallings, 2003/12/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Momchil Velikov, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Aaron Bentley, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Robert Collins, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Florian Weimer, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Florian Weimer, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Tom Lord, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Brian May, 2003/12/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0, Tom Lord, 2003/12/31