Using the GnuPG vim plugin to edit encrypted files.

See show hpr3476 My mutt email setup

http://www.hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3476

GnuPG Vim Plugin on vim.org

https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645

GnuPG Vim Plugin on Github

https://github.com/vim-scripts/gnupg.vim

From man 1 gpg-agent:

You should always add the following lines to your .bashrc or whatever initialization file is used for all shell invocations:

GPG_TTY=`tty`

export GPG_TTY

It is important that this environment variable always reflects the output of the tty command.

.bashrc snippet

## GPG Vim

GPG_TTY=`tty`

export GPG_TTY

export EDITOR=vim

GnuPG folder structure

[mark@fedora-lt ~]$ tree .vim

.vim

├── plugin

│ └── vim-gnupg

│ ├── autoload

│ │ └── gnupg.vim

│ ├── doc

│ │ └── gnupg.txt

│ ├── plugin

│ │ └── gnupg.vim

│ └── README.md

└── spell

├── en.utf-8.add

└── en.utf-8.add.spl

vimrc

set tabstop=2 softtabstop=0 expandtab shiftwidth=2 smarttab textwidth=80

syntax on

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.log set filetype=logtalk

set spell spelllang=en_us

Generate gpg full key

gpg --full-generate-key

or just a regular one, with less options

gpg --gen-key

Encrypt the file in question, with -r as the recipient

In this case, I used part of the comment as the recipient

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This is more like it.

gpg -e -r test thisIsMyTestFile.txt

Now test edit the file

vim thisIsMyTestFile.txt.gpg

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It is a good idea to shred the original text file

shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it

-u deallocate and remove file after overwriting

-v, --verbose, show progress