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Maybe it can be great to encrypt using specified GPG key

This will avoid to retain multiple password

Yeah, I have a lot of ideas around this. I'm aiming to have different encryption and authentication strategies implemented as plugins. The API should be basically there. I like keeping simple, clear file encryption as the baseline in the core. I feel like it should be possible to implement just about anything around encryption, passwords, and keys as plugins with no more than small hook in the _encrypt_file() and _decrypt_file() functions.

If anyone else wants to try implementing plugins around this, this would be a good area to contribute. I'd recommend implementing a plugin in the plugins directory.

With the current implementation wouldn't a plugin need to override the encryption and decryption functions?

Would it make sense to add encryption methods like subcommands are added? It could look something like this

_encryptions add "gpg"

_encrypt_gpg() {
}

_decrypt_gpg() {
}

You would also have to be able to extend the logic that determines the encryption method of an existing file. Technically I guess it could try every decryption method until it succeeds.

I think this would be a great idea. Maybe it could get inspiration from pass encryption system. Also, in a multiple users scenario, this system would enable multiple keys to access to the notes.

+1 for (at least) some sort of master password support.

Using nb for simple encryption workflows feels like a natural extension. Though, it looks as if such features will only be available through some community support. I don't think the project has a roadmap yet right? This sounds useful given the different feature requests and pending improvements (as good as the current state of the tool already is).