Secure Editor Specification v1

[jht5945]

URL: https://ows.hatter.in/rfc6

Key	Value	Comment
No.	RFC#6	-
Author	Hatter Jiang	-
Created	Sep 13th, 2025	-
Modified	Sep 13th, 2025	-
Modified	Feb 22nd, 2026	add status code description

export SECURE_EDITOR=<FULL COMMAND FILE PATH>

commandline-cli <file-name> <algorithm> <key-hex> <nonce-hex>

• algorithm must be aes-256-gcm
• key-hex key bytes in hex, length must be 32
• nonce-hex nonce bytes in hex, length must be 12

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[new] from Feb 22, 2026
Return status code:
0 - success
1 - error occurred
2 - exit without save