On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:01:15AM -0300, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > I have a important file that I set a encrypt key last year... But I > forgot the key, but I need to read the file... any way to do that? I'm > using vim 6.4
There used to be a product called The Cryptographer's Workbench (CWB) (also known as The Crypt Breaker's Workbench (CBW)) that assisted with the decyphering of files encoded with the original vi. I don't know whether it'll work with Vim; it depends on whether the algorithm has changed. I don't know where to find it; I have a copy on quarter inch tape but no way of reading it. The source was posted to comp.sources.unix in the 1980s so it may be possible to find a copy somewhere. It's not difficult to use, but it's not a "plug in the file and out comes the plaintext" application: it performs the boring and tedious part of cracking the encryption but the rest is up to you. -- Matthew Winn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
