Scripting Interface

[tsmanner]

A clean API for interacting with vimcrypted files directly through python would be a huge boon. For example:

• Encrypting a large output file
  • Ability to open and edit it in vim.
  • Parser written in python, using the exact header+encryption library.
  • Output from a data mining python application could be encrypted using the same credentials.
• ftp wrapper could encrypt/decrypt data headed to or from a system.

API:

from encryptionengine import EncryptedIO, AesEngine
with EncryptedIO("some-file", cipher=AesEngine) as fl:
    for line in fl:
        # Do stuff with the plaintext lines!
        my_parser.parse(line)
with EncryptedIO("parsed-file", cipher=AesEngine) as fl:
    [fl.write(line) for line in my_parser.parsed_data]