Text editors with encryption plugins?

I am looking for a text editor which supports openssl encryption as a plugin. So, instead of manually:

decrypt a file in shell
edit it in the text editor
encrypt the file in shell

Hopefully, the plugin can take care of the above human steps and only ask for password when opening and closing the file.

ohho

Posted 2012-05-02T03:33:56.867

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EncryptPad does exactly what you ask but OpenPGP encryption instead of OpenSSL. This text editor does not need a plug-in. Encryption is its main functionality. You don't need to install anything else. – evpo – 2016-02-24T04:05:22.693

OpenSSL is a network protocol layer... how does this relate to a text editor? – Flimzy – 2012-05-02T03:35:52.130

@Flimzy: The OpenSSL CLI tool can also encrypt and decrypt binary data. See the enc predicate. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams – 2012-05-02T03:37:41.067

Answers

It looks like the openssl.vim plugin for Vim can do this, although I've never used it myself. I do use the gnupg.vim plugin however. I'm not sure why you specifically want to use OpenSSL for encryption, but unless you know what you're doing I would suggest GnuPG instead (OpenSSL is a more low level tool and one can still do the wrong thing with ciphers if they aren't used properly). GnuPG can do symmetric encryption (i.e. a passphrase) as well as public/private key encryption.

mgorven

Posted 2012-05-02T03:33:56.867

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One reason to choice openssl: it's pre-installed on a mac. – ohho – 2012-05-02T07:27:19.370

OpenSSL supports a number of different ciphers including 3DES and AES. I think "using OpenSSL encryption" would read better as "using OpenSSL for encryption". – emgee – 2012-05-03T05:57:35.507

Textmate includes the ability to encrypt and decrypt using AES. If you look into the bundle that does this, you can see it is using openssl to do the encryption/decryption. You could easily modify the bundle if needed for different parameters, ciphers, etc.

emgee

Posted 2012-05-02T03:33:56.867

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Although it doesn't use OpenSSL, Vim can encrypt a file using Blowfish. See :h encryption for details.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Posted 2012-05-02T03:33:56.867

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Sublime also has an OpenSSL encryption package OpenSSL.

user1277706

Posted 2012-05-02T03:33:56.867

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