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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Skullgrid@lemmy.world to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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for one user, one machine. nothing fancy. just something that I can store passwords in. I've heard freakout problems about a lot of different ones.

EDIT : I'm on debian. 13.

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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use :X in vim with blowfish.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I do know about :x to save and exit, is :X really to encrypt?

How does this work?

And how to you sync through devices and use it on e.g. a smartphone?

Or was this a joke that flew over my head?

Edit: for everybody else who didn't ever use that feature (and I've used vim as an IDE for some years), here you go
https://www.networkworld.com/article/969554/using-vim-to-quickly-encrypt-and-decrypt-files.html

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

ssh on my bastion.