I have read that post and agree with him in principle, but it should be up the end user to decide if they want to use this. As for ECB vs CBC, I recommend read

I have read that post and agree with him in principle, but it should be up the end user to decide if they want to use this. As for ECB vs CBC, I recommend reading https://github.com/shadowhand/git-encrypt/issues/2 https://github.com/shadowhand/git-encrypt/issues/2 which cover both ECB and fixed salts in depth.