Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-30 Thread Chris Albertson
I think the bottom line here is that your only "for sure" method is to do all the encryption and decryption on your own local computer. But as others have said this means SVN sees only binary blobs. You can not depend on the server unless you completely trust Root. But if you trust him why not s

Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-30 Thread Campbell Allan
On Monday 29 Nov 2010, Piotr Kabaciński wrote: > On 11/29/2010 12:50 PM, Campbell Allan wrote: > >> If you are able to create dedicated partition you could encrypt repo > >> like described here: > >> http://www.hypersphere.org/personal/svn.shtml > > > > With some pretty important drawbacks, the no

Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-30 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Chris Albertson wrote on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:29:39 -0800: > Absolutely NOTHING will work if a person has physical access to the > server. +1, with the exception of versioning encrypted files. (and we have diff-cmd and such in the config file, which can be used to make 'diff' be useful)

Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-29 Thread Chris Albertson
Absolutely NOTHING will work if a person has physical access to the server. You simply have to trust whoever is running the computer for you. How would you know that he did not swap out the entire computer? You'd think your data is encrypted but. What if he has replaced system software or is

Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/29/2010 11:21 AM, Piotr Kabaciński wrote: If you are able to create dedicated partition you could encrypt repo like described here: http://www.hypersphere.org/personal/svn.shtml With some pretty important drawbacks, the no diff/conflict resolution would be a dealbreaker for me With en

Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-29 Thread Piotr Kabaciński
On 11/29/2010 12:50 PM, Campbell Allan wrote: If you are able to create dedicated partition you could encrypt repo like described here: http://www.hypersphere.org/personal/svn.shtml With some pretty important drawbacks, the no diff/conflict resolution would be a dealbreaker for me With encryp

Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-29 Thread Campbell Allan
On Monday 29 Nov 2010, Piotr Kabacinski wrote: > On 29-11-2010 10:18, He Dajiang wrote: > > For some reason, my svn server is in someone else's Linux machine. Is > > there any way for me to prevent the Linux root from seeing and copying my > > files? > > If you are able to create dedicated partiti

Re: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-29 Thread Piotr Kabacinski
On 29-11-2010 10:18, He Dajiang wrote: For some reason, my svn server is in someone else's Linux machine. Is there any way for me to prevent the Linux root from seeing and copying my files? If you are able to create dedicated partition you could encrypt repo like described here: http://www.h

RE: prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-29 Thread Ludwig, Michael
> -Original Message- > From: He Dajiang > For some reason, my svn server is in someone else's Linux > machine. Is there any way for me to prevent the Linux root > from seeing and copying my files? No. Copying and seeing files can't be prevented. You'd need to encrypt your data at some

prevent Linux root from seeing my files

2010-11-29 Thread He Dajiang
Hi, For some reason, my svn server is in someone else's Linux machine. Is there any way for me to prevent the Linux root from seeing and copying my files? BR DJ Institute for Infocomm Research disclaimer: "This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipie