On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:16:33AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 01:33, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:01:41PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > > > On November 4, 2002 06:03 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > Here is the script for VIM which automate GNUPG. > > > > > > Thank you for all the advice! I went with the GPG in vim - since it's > > > easy as well, I figured I might as well use the strong encryption. > > > > > > That's cool that vim also has a built-in encryption feature. > > > > No... not quite. > > > > VIM does not have build-in encryption feature. You need gnupg package > > to offer it. Any editor with some smart scripting support shall be able to > > do this (emacs, of course. I suppose mcedit in mc should be able to do > > this too.) > > Well, VIM *has* buid-in encryption out of the box. > You do not need any other package installed. And as far as I can tell, > this is true for all platforms, vim runs on. > > Start vim and read all about it with > :help -x > :help encryption The algorithm doesn't look all that secure: a four character key is breakable in one hour on a P133. I'd just use Osamu's script with GPG and a real algorithm like RC5 or Blowfish. -rob
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