Progress. I can now create and edit notes reliably.

src/includes/create.sns.sh

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ function create(){
         echo "TITLE: $NAME" > "$NOTE"
         echo "DATE: $(date)" >> "$NOTE"
     elif [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then
-        touch "$NOTE"
-        p_header | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -out "$NOTE"\
-        -pass pass:"$ENC_KEY"
+        TARGET="$TMP_DIR"/"$SESSION_ID"
+        p_header > "$TARGET"
+        encrypt
     fi
 
     if [ -e "$NOTE" ]; then

src/includes/edit.sns.sh

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ if [ ! -r "$NOTE" ]; then
     exit 40;
 fi
 
-if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then decrypt
+if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then
+    cp "$NOTE" "$NOTE".bk
+    decrypt
 else TARGET="$NOTE"; fi
 
 
@@ -12,7 +14,11 @@ if [ -z "$CREATE" ]; then printf "\nEDIT %s" "$(date)" >> "$TARGET"; fi
 
 "$EDITOR" "$TARGET"
 
-if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then encrypt; fi
+if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then
+    rm "$NOTE"
+    encrypt;
+    if [ -r "$NOTE" ]; then rm "$NOTE".bk;  fi
+fi
 
 
 

src/includes/libencryption.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ function encrypt(){
 # output file, "$NOTE", will encrypt $TARGET to $NOTE against $PUBKEY's private
 # GPG key.
 
-gpg -r "$PUBKEY" --encrypt-files "$TARGET" --output "$NOTE"
+gpg -r "$PUBKEY" -o "$NOTE" -e "$TARGET"
 
 }
 

src/main/stage1.sns.sh

@@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then
         ENCRYPTION="FALSE"
     fi
 
-    command -v openssl >/dev/null 2>&1 ||\
-        { ERR_NO_SSL="TRUE"; ENCRYPTION="FALSE"; }
+    command -v gpg >/dev/null 2>&1 ||\
+        { ERR_NO_GPG="TRUE"; ENCRYPTION="FALSE"; }
 fi
 
 if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then
     PROD_STR="Simple Note System (Encryption Enabled)"
-    EXT="$EXT".gpg
     if [ ! -d "$BASE_DIR"/tmp ]; then
         mkdir -p "$BASE_DIR"/tmp
     fi
@@ -28,16 +27,17 @@ fi
 
 echo "$PROD_STR, $VER_STR"
 
-if [ -n "$ERR_NO_SSL" ]; then
-echo >&2 "  Warning: OpenSSL not installed. Encryption disabled."
-fi
-if [ -n "$ERR_NO_KEY" ]; then
-echo "  Warning: No encryption key was provided. Encryption disabled."
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+   >&2 echo "Error no editor specified in environment."
+
+elif [ -n "$ERR_NO_GPG" ]; then
+    >&2 echo  "  Error: Encryption was specified, but GPG is not installed."
+    exit 100
+elif [ -n "$ERR_NO_KEY" ]; then
+    >&2 echo "  Error: No GPG recipient was provided in $CONFIG_FILE. "
+    exit 110
 fi
 
-if [ -n "$ERR_NO_SSL" ] || [ -n "$ERR_NO_KEY" ]; then
-pause
-fi
 
 #==============================================================================
 # End Section: Configuration / Stage 1

src/main/stage3.sns.sh

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SESSION_ID="$RANDOM"
 NOTE_DIR="$BASE_DIR"/"$NOTEBOOK"/"$SECTION"/
 NOTE="$NOTE_DIR""$NAME"."$EXT"
 
-if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then NOTE="$NOTE".enc; fi
+if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "TRUE" ]; then NOTE="$NOTE".gpg; fi
 if [ "$PRINT"      == "TRUE" ]; then print; exit 0; fi
 if [ "$DELETE"     == "TRUE" ]; then delete; exit 0; fi
 if [ "$CREATE"     == "TRUE" ]; then create; fi