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Why not use GPG directly? I get the wish to not add more binary dependencies, but the recent couple of issues with Go's math and crypto libraries doesn't fill me with confidence. Not to mention that there's no real benefit to adding your own wrappers around the crypto primitives when GPG already exists.

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Initially I did. However, I tend to use lots of Windows computers, so I really wanted something where I didn't have to install Cygwin+GPG+rsync each time.

The Windows release also bundles vim into the binary so you don't even have to have vim installed if you're using Windows!

And as a Windows user I thank you.

I had the same need, so I created a zero-install, client-side encrypted, browser-based editor using SJCL+CodeMirror in Vim mode: https://github.com/srpeck/encryptedgist

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