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Vim’s built in encryption feature is pretty handy but it’s algorithm is only strong enough to protect against a casual observer. For good encryption something else is required but I still want something that is fairly transparent. I’ve come up with a little solution using GnuPG, just add the following to your .vimrc to automatically encrypt and decrypt *.gpg files. (Replace GPGKEYID with your key id of course)

au BufNewFile,BufReadPre *.gpg :set secure viminfo= noswapfile nobackup nowritebackup history=0 binary
au BufReadPost *.gpg :%!gpg -d 2>/dev/null
au BufWritePre *.gpg :%!gpg -e -r GPGKEYID 2>/dev/null
au BufWritePost *.gpg u