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Show HN: Open source password manager for GNU/Linux
- tckr 11y agoWhat is the advantage oder using KeePass(X) which works on all platforms?
- Fastidious 11y agoThere might not be an advantage now. Just as KeePass has grown, this one might too. Competition, even in open source, is great!
- tux 11y agoInteresting, but I agree KeePassX is better it has more features.
- IlPeach 11y agoThanks I was exactly looking for your comment :)
- nvr82 11y agoVersion number is 0.2 so yes it has less features than KeepassX. There will be more features in the near future. This was just really "release early, release often"-kind of thing.
- Fastidious 11y agoKeep it up, it is looking great, clean and simple. I like it!
- viccuad 11y agowhy don't go with http://www.passwordstore.org/ http://www.passwordstore.org/ (pass)? pass is just a 500 line bash GPG wrapper, and a git repo. You can audit easily the code. You shouldn't have your password manager, the most succulent software, to be 5000[1] lines of code in c++. You don't need a single point of failure. You don't need to build trust in a new developer and it's desire to keep mantaining and updating the software. Just use already proven tools for data at rest: GPG. Also, pass has implementations for Android, iOS, web browser extensions, etc. [1] ~/fort $ wc -l .cpp .h *.ui : 5079 total
- stevekemp 11y agoThe biggest downside to passwordstore, and I say this as somebody using it, is that your password-filenames are in clear. That means an attacker who gains access to your files can see you have particular accounts: ~/.passwordstore/websites/evil.com ~/.passwordstore/websites/sexy.com It's unfortunate these aren't encrypted, hashed, or otherwise masked.
- viccuad 11y agoAnd one can argue that if an attacker can do that, they are already inside the machine. To that effect, they could just put a bogus pass binary in ~/bin and extract all your passwords. Yet if you use this solution (or keepass or whatever you want) you are exposing yourself to attacks to those codebases. Which normally are monstruos for the most juicy of programs: a password manager.
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