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Ch. 1. System Snapshots with Tripwire

Ch. 2. Firewalls with iptables and ipchains

Ch. 3. Network Access Control

Ch. 4. Authentication Techniques and Infrastructures

Ch. 5. Authorization Controls

Ch. 6. Protecting Outgoing Network Connections

Ch. 7. Protecting Files

Recipe 7.1. Using File Permissions

Recipe 7.2. Securing a Shared Directory

Recipe 7.3. Prohibiting Directory Listings

Recipe 7.4. Encrypting Files with a Password

Recipe 7.5. Decrypting Files

Recipe 7.6. Setting Up GnuPG for Public-Key Encryption

Recipe 7.7. Listing Your Keyring

Recipe 7.8. Setting a Default Key

Recipe 7.9. Sharing Public Keys

Recipe 7.10. Adding Keys to Your Keyring

Recipe 7.11. Encrypting Files for Others

Recipe 7.12. Signing a Text File

Recipe 7.13. Signing and Encrypting Files

Recipe 7.14. Creating a Detached Signature File

Recipe 7.15. Checking a Signature

Recipe 7.16. Printing Public Keys

Recipe 7.17. Backing Up a Private Key

Recipe 7.18. Encrypting Directories

Recipe 7.19. Adding Your Key to a Keyserver

Recipe 7.20. Uploading New Signatures to a Keyserver

Recipe 7.21. Obtaining Keys from a Keyserver

Recipe 7.22. Revoking a Key

Recipe 7.23. Maintaining Encrypted Files with Emacs

Recipe 7.24. Maintaining Encrypted Files with vim

Recipe 7.25. Encrypting Backups

Recipe 7.26. Using PGP Keys with GnuPG

Ch. 8. Protecting Email

Ch. 9. Testing and Monitoring

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Recipe 7.24. Maintaining Encrypted Files with vim

7.24.1. Problem

You want to edit encrypted files in place with vim, without decrypting them to disk.

7.24.2. Solution

Add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc file:

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