Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safe viewing of encrypted file

["Dave O'Neill" <dmo [ at ] dmo [ dot ] ca>]

John C Nash wrote:
> Some of you may remember my OCLUG talk on tools for carrying encrypted 
> files on USB. Still on this topic, I'm wondering the best way (for the 
> moment just in Linux) to simply view the contents of an encrypted plain 
> text file (my password list!) in a way that doesn't leave a backup file 
> around, and clears memory etc.

Not that it helps with your current problem, but you might want to 
consider "pwsafe" as an alternative to keeping your passwords in an 
encrypted text file.

See http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ or 'apt-get install pwsafe' on 
Debian.

Cheers,
Dave