Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm having one doubt about the VIM
ENCRYPTION key.  I having a text file, I encrypted that file
using   Now, where the encrypted key is stored (path).  Whether
it stored in a separate file or the text file itself.  If I open
a the file it asked Encryption key.  How it compare my key with
the original key?  share|improve this question add comment  2
Answers  up vote 2 down vote accepted  It doesn't store the key
- it just encrypts or decrypts with the key you type.  Here's a
hex dump of a 15-character file encrypted with a key ('elephant'
- try it; the contents was not meaningful ('abcdededesdasd')
before I encrypted it):  0x0000: 56 69 6D 43 72 79 70 74 7E 30
31 21 95 96 C7 F6   VimCrypt~01!.... 0x0010: 75 C8 3B BF 1D BD
BD 86 97 32 DA                  u.;......2.  It's 27 characters
long; 'VimCrypt~01!' is 12 characters. If you decrypt it with
the wrong key (say 'pinkpanther'), you get garbage. So, vim does
no integrity checking on the encrypted file or decrypted file.
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