[zodiakzz]

For encrypting text files, I just use vim's `:X` command and enter a pass phrase. Simple, easy, portable, works everywhere. I have configured my .vimrc to `set cryptmethod=blowfish2` and disable backup/swap files for encrypted files. Are there any issues with this? Is there any other option that will work on virtually all UNIX devices without installing anything additional?

[tptacek]

It's so weird hearing what people are doing instead of PGP, and how bad it is. I had no idea vim even had this feature, but from what I've discovered in about 3 minutes of Googling, vim's "blowfish2" is the 64-bit-block Blowfish cipher in unauthenticated CFB mode. Just awful: Blowfish is weak, and attackers can manipulate the ciphertext of your files. This is why you want `age`.

[CiPHPerCoder]

Trying to unfuck vim's encryption spawned a very interesting Github thread, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/638

[loeg]

Happily, fixed in neovim: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/694

[FDSGSG]

Damn, the Vim developers seem to be a particularly unpleasant group of people.

[bscphil]

Welp, I'm switching to neovim.

[cpach]

Just… wow.

[markonen]

I learned about this vi feature the hard way—by accidentally encrypting something important with no idea about what I had typed in as the key.

Luckily for me, vi defaulted to Enigma encryption back then…