(question) Encrypting a single file

[William Park]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:40:07AM -0400, Mike Kallies wrote:
> On 3/25/2011 8:57 PM, William Park wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:26:21PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> >> vim -x  (or, from within vim use ":X")
>
> > Yes!  That's what I was looking for.  I didn't know Vim had that.
> > Thanks Scott.
> 
> Careful:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/575817/vim-encryption-how-to-break-it
> 
> "The algorithm used is breakable. A 4 character key in about one hour, a
> 6 character key in one day (on a Pentium 133 PC). This requires that you
> know some text that must appear in the file. An expert can break it for
> any key. When the text has been decrypted, this also means that the key
> can be revealed, and other files encrypted with the same key can be
> decrypted."
> 
> Does anyone know if this has improved?

Hmm... I read that after I replied.  I would've thought they use
symmetric encryption via gpg or something.  I guess it would create
dependency which might not work on Windows.
-- 
William
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