Hi bruceleeroy! On Sa, 08 Dez 2012, bruceleeroy wrote:
> Somehow on exiting Vim I managed to set a password with Encryption On > resulting in this: > http://i.minus.com/i0EtLG3ZGp0H7.jpg > > Outside of somehow remember what I hit when exiting the program I am screwed > huh? Well, good news is, you accidentally used the old now deprecated crypt method, which is breakable. But I have no clue, how to do this. The help says about 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. `---- Possibly you can write a script, that feeds various combinations to vim and checks, whether the file got decrypted. That sounds like a fun exercise. See also this question on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/575817/vim-encryption-how-to-break-it regards, Christian -- Was darf ich für sie bestellen? Haben sie Schildkrötensuppe? Haben sie schon je Schildkrötensuppe gegessen? Nein, noch nie. Dann haben wir sie. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
