vi a gpg file?

[Tom Buskey]

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mike ledoux wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:31:03PM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
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|>Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> writes:
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|>>Anyone know of a way to transparently vi a file while gpg
|>>encrypting/decrypting?  Without leaving un unencrypted copy on disk?
|>
|>Perhaps this?:
|>
|>:%!gpg --decrypt
|>
|>Encrypting plaintext via this method is harder, since you have the
|>requirement that the file not be saved in the clear.  Hmm.
|
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| Eh.  Many 'vi's keep a copy of the current buffer in a temporary
| file on disk, so even this method doesn't ensure that the cleartext

I forgot that part.  Substitute another editor.  It needs to be non-gui.

| will not be saved.  Of course, if you don't trust the physical
| security of your machine, GPG doesn't help you much (I'm presuming
| that if you're concerned about plain text in deleted files that you
| aren't doing any of this in a network-connected context).


Nope.  Local machine only.  I'm open to other strong encyption methods too

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