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transparently encrypt files within a git repository

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2014-02-11 · latest 2025-12-08

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  1. I understand the simplicity angle. https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt has been around for a long time and strikes that balance very well in my opinion. And it's just a bash script that can also be committed so the git repo is atomic.
    comment by andreineculau · 2025-12-08 · in Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git
  2. …[1] - https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508734 [3] - https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
    comment by LinuxBender · 2023-04-02 · in Ask HN: Privacy-Conscious GitHub?
  3. …any longer. Two alternatives that I've used and like are: https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
    comment by agotterer · 2017-04-27 · in Git-crypt – Transparent file encryption in git
  4. …Pass: http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/ Transcrypt: https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt Keyringer: https://keyringer.pw/ git-secret: https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret
    comment by 0xmohit · 2016-07-27 · in LastPass autofill exploit
  5. If you need to do this, I would recommend looking at Transcrypt: https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
    comment by passive · 2016-05-09 · in Git-secret – store private data in a Git repo
  6. …https://github.com/shadowhand/git-encrypt * http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_vault.html * https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt * http://www.passwordstore.org/ [0]: https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox
    comment by chishaku · 2015-11-25 · in Git as an Encrypted Distributed Version Control System
  7. …box rather than GPG. A different workflow, and there are certainly pros and cons to both ways. [1] https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
    comment by elasticdog · 2014-09-03 · in Blackbox: Safely store secrets in Git
  8. …automated with transcrypt (which uses Git's clean/smudge filters) to do that for you transparently: https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
    comment by elasticdog · 2014-09-03 · in Blackbox: Safely store secrets in Git
  9. Another similar project that aims to do the same thing: https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt The readme contains an itemized comparison, though it sounds some of this actual comparison may be out of date or more specific to git-encrypt…
    comment by roller · 2014-04-01 · in Storing sensitive data in a git repository using git-crypt
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    Show HN: Transcrypt – transparently encrypt files within a Git repository
    story by elasticdog · 2014-02-11 · 0 comments