On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 11:15:19 AM UTC-5, Marvin Renich wrote: > > > I am not suggesting there is nothing to fix. I think Vim's crypto is too > > weak for it to be very useful for important data. > ^^^^^^^^^ > > That is the salient point. What type of data do people use Vim to > secure, and why do they choose Vim over other cryptographic tools to do > it? >
Well, here's the sort of thing I worry about the most far most users: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5340 http://usevim.com/2013/11/27/password-manager/ https://invert.svbtle.com/using-vim-as-a-password-manager https://stelfox.net/blog/2013/11/using-vim-as-your-password-manager/ http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Keep_passwords_in_encrypted_file And then of course somebody could get the bright idea of encrypting a 20GB CSV file of medical data to put on a flash drive or something. I'd hope dissidents and the like use tools more designed for the task already. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
