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Encrypted git remotes are now possible
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using [git-remote-gcrypt](https://github.com/blake2-ppc/git-remote-gcrypt).
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There are at least two use cases for this in the assistant:
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* Storing an encrypted git repository on a local drive.
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* Or on a remote server. This could even allow using github. But more
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likely would be a shell server that has git-annex-shell on it so can
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also store file contents, and which is not trusted with unencrypted data.
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git-remote-gcrypt is already usable with git-annex. What's needed is
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to make sure it's installed (ie, get it packaged into distros or embedded
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into git-annex), and make it easy to set up from the webapp.
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Hmm, this will need gpg key creation, so would also be a good opportunity
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to make the webapp allow using that for special remotes too.
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One change is needed in git-annex core.. It currently does not support
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storing encrypted files on git remotes, only on special remotes. Perhaps
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the way to deal with this is to make it consider git-remote-grypt remotes
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to be a special remote type?
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