Nano Encryption Working
MikiStrange <[email protected]>
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I am pleased to say that my routine for encryption with Nano using CLI is now working. I have attached a file with the method I am using to test that this works. I have to say thank you to Benno Schulenberg for supplying the patch to 2.9.2 and for his guidance in applying it, also for other guidance in this process. Also thank you to Jalus Bilieyich for his guidance and spotting that I needed ncurses to make the installation of 2.9.2 work. Please follow the method if you have time and see if it works for you. Yours Mik -- www.mikistrange.com _______________________________________________ Help-nano mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-nano
dopenc.txt
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Secure Desktop Encryption A simple explanation of how to encrypt on the command line. This method uses Nano, a named pipe and openssl. 1. Create your named pipe: mkfifo pipe 2. Check your new file is working as a pipe with: ls -l 3. In the same directory as your named pipe open 2 instances of terminal. 4. In terminal 1 type the following command: nano --noread pipe 5. In terminal 2 type: openssl enc -base64 < pipe (then press return) 6. Return to terminal 1 and press return. Nano will open. 7. Type a message as normal and write out with: ^o 8. Nano will ask if you want to save your message with the name 'pipe'. Press return. 9. Nano will pipe the message through the encryption routine and the result will be displayed in terminal 2.