NAME

cryptote - Text editor with built-in strong cryptographic functions.

SYNOPSIS

cryptote [OPTIONS] [container]

Launch graphical text editor interface.

cryptote [OPTIONS] <OPERATION> <container>

Console-based operations on a container file.

cryptote [OPTIONS] -pwgen

Launch graphical password generator dialog.

DESCRIPTION

CryptoTE is a text editor based on the popular Scintilla editing widget. It can save sensitive text data in container files using strong encryption. This way private data cannot be read by other possibly malicious programs on a system. The editor uses the wxWidgets cross-platform user-interface library.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Display a short help text on the command line parameters.

-L <str>, --lang=<str>

Set language for messages and locale. Example: de or en_GB.

-p <str>, --pass=<str>

Use the given password to decrypt the initially loaded container. Note that the password will be visible to other users through ps. If this parameter is not given, the password will be queried interactively.

-pwgen

Start stand-alone password generator dialog instead of the editor.

OPERATIONS

-l, --list

List subfiles in container.

-d <num>, --decrypt=<num>

Decrypt subfile <num> and output it to stdout.

-e <num>, --edit=<num>

Edit subfile <num> using the default (console) editor. The editor is defined by the environment variable $EDITOR, which is set by the distribution. Note that the contents of the subfile is first written to a temporary file. Other applications can also read this temporary file while it is edited. Use the built-in graphical editor for higher security.

-s, --shell

Start a simple command line shell to list / edit subfiles in loaded container.

EXAMPLES

Launch wxWidgets text editor interface:

cryptote

Open the container test.ect with password "abcde" and edit the second subfile:

cryptote -p "abcde" -e 2 test.ect

Launch shell for container test.ect:

cryptote -s test.ect

AUTHOR

Timo Bingmann (tb (at) panthema <dot> net)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Timo Bingmann.
Released under the GPLv2+: GNU General Public License Version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

SEE ALSO

<http://panthema.net/2009/cryptote>