[ncarlson]

> "Scary crypto stuff"? So you don't understand how PKI works and you're trying to use distributed source control?

Is this an honest question, or are you alluding to the idea that someone who doesn't understand PKI should not use distributed source control?

[uxp]

Well, in the original quote that was cited from "scary crypto stuff" was surrounded with:

Last I checked they[GitHub] made you perform a bunch of scary crypto stuff on your local machine before they'd let you in.

If performing `ssh-keygen` and entering in an (optional) password from a command line constitutes "scary crypto", then maybe Git and GitHub isn't for everyone. Not that anyone needs to know how PKI works, but they might be better off knowing that `ssh-keygen` generates an ssh key pair, a pretty essential component of the `git` workflow.

Maybe that's why SVN is so strong in older development shops. Outside of the effort required to convert an SVN repo to a Git repo, all those developers already have all the tools necessary on their machines (Windows is high on that list) and in many cases inside a VPN like my division we just use WebDAV anyways, completely bypassing the need for SSH Keys in favor of ActiveDirectory.