Vim password manager
Vim can also be used to safely store information, by encrypting text files with different cryp methods. To see the cryp method that Vim is currently using, type:
:set cryptmethod?
We can see in our case it is zip, which is not actually a crypto method and does not offer much in terms of security. To see what different alternatives we have, we can type:
:h 'cryptmethod'
A page describing the different encryption methods comes up. We can choose from zip, blowfish, and blowfish2.The most secure and recommended one is, of course, blowfish2. To change the encryption method, type:
:set cryptmethod=blowfish2
This can be also added to vimrc ...
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