Sunday, September 25, 2016

Re: Strength of builtin blowfish2 encryption?

On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:02:10 -0400
arocker@Vex.Net wrote:

>
> > I wonder how string the builtin encryption of vim really is.
> >
>
> Encryption really isn't the business of a text editor. Decrypt the
> cipher-text, feed it to the editor, encrypt when saving, and be sure
> to delete any temporary/backup files.
>
> Yes. there are windows of vulnerability in there, but I would suggest
> they are less risky than relying on amateur cryptography.
>

It is the business of an editor when it stores temporary files. Those
too have to be encrypted or it's all wasted effort.

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