[ILUG] Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups

[Kerry Linux Support]

GPG and similar encryption software can be integrated into vim very
easily. You can simply sign a text in the vim editor by hitting
<CRTL>G and after giving your passphrase, the signed text is in
the editor. Voila.

For this magic to work one has to prepare a file ".exrc" with the
following line:

map  :,$! /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/expand \| sed 's/ *$//g' \| gpg --clearsign -u \"Kerry Linux Support\"" 2> /dev/tty

Replace the Key Id by your name, please.

The tricky part is to enter ^G as one character into this file, you have
to enter ^v first and then ^G (still pressing <crtl>). For all who 
struggle with this part I have included this line as an attachment.

Have fun, and use gpg.

RON
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>> As a matter of interest, what do you recommend for encryption?
> 
> GPG:
> 
> http://gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
>
> Can it be integrated into vi/vim reasonably easily?
> It would be rather tedious to unencrypt, edit and encrypt again.
>
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