Comments on: Vim, the ultimate command-line password manager

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:58:01 +0000

I’d be surprised if emacs *didn’t* have transparent encryption

I don’t have first-hand experience with emacs, but there’s a lot of information on their wiki:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoEncryption

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:28:33 +0000

Does emacs have a plugin or other method to transparently decrypt and recrypt the file?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:57:04 +0000

Can’t beat the simplicity of vim (or emacs) for editing/maintaining your secrets. Point-and-click interfaces tend to feel pretty clunky (though they have their benefits)

Coincidentally, I just finished the first pass on my cipherstore querier/clipboard-paster which supports using GnuPG and gnupg.vim to do the heavy lifting:

https://github.com/robertkrimen/App-locket

By: mic

mic — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:10:05 +0000

for the extension, i would recommend looking into something like dmenu for the interface. It’s pretty intuitive, nicely scriptable, and overall pretty sweet. :)

By: Paul Tötterman

Paul Tötterman — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:13:08 +0000

I also make use of the GPG plugin for Vim. But I store each password in a separate file and have gpg-agent running so that I only need to enter the password every x minutes (or after locking the screen).