clipd is helps encrypting/decrypting text on the local clipboard/pasteboard
- clipd uses the local clipboard/pasteboard service and can directly encrypt and decrypt into the clipboard
- to encrypt copy the password and press
Cmd+shift+E
which changes the copied password to a formatted string which can be saved any where
[WHOAMI]!0a4a2860-5857-42f2-ac91-3e341b115180!331168d55b964ad6ee3841f0b04558bc549f55748206332c6e62f3cd527e049df8c915d1bdbd5542d794327f5f75361c9ce6e598d2
- to decrypt, copy the saved encrypted string and press
Cmd+shift+D
and the contents are decrypted into the clip board and can be pasted as original password
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Now clipd can be started using command and can keep running in the background
$ clipd server --salt randomsalt --keydir your_key_directory_given_in_setup