Note encryption for Obsidian

Update 2021–04–12: There’s now an Obsidian plug-in to encrypt notes!! Go use Meld’s Obsidian-Encrypt instead of running my script. The plugin can be triggered directly in Obsidian with a hotkey and can encrypt/decrypt individual notes and even lines :)
Check it out: https://github.com/meld-cp/obsidian-encrypt

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Based on a thread in the Obsidian forum, I decided to write two small python functions that allow me to encrypt & decrypt individual Obsidian notes such as a personal journal.

Both functions encrypt.py and decrypt.py are sitting in my Obsidian vault and I call them via the command line to encrypt/decrypt a note by setting a key.

See code below; simply save the functions as .py in your vault and set path_folder to your vault.

Maybe someone can could even make it into a plugin that can directly encrypt/decrypt notes from the Obsidian interface.

encrypt

decrypt

See here if you have trouble with No module named Crypto.Cipher.

Originally published at https://jenglert.gitlab.io on November 4, 2020.