Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Re: Password safe with Vim -- is openssl.vim still the way to go?

On 24.05.11 17:09, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote:
> >On 2011-05-07 17:37:48, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> >>I am wondering if that's still the way to go or if something
> >>new/better had cropped up, in the meantime.
> >
> >I switched to blowfish when it shipped with vim (7.3 I think).
>
> openssl.vim appears to have the advantage of not putting yanked lines into the registers saved in .viminfo. Vim won't allow 'viminfo="0' in a modeline, either...

My .viminfo contains nothing but filenames and lines like:

" 78 44
^ 78 45
. 78 44
+ 400 19

so saving registers in .viminfo seems to be self-inflicted. Perhaps the
excessive recording can be turned off with an autocommand, when editing
encrypted files.

But thanks for the "heads up". It's comforting to have checked and found
no security risk.

Erik

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