[PLUG] Password keeper

[Tyrell Jentink]

In the past, I have used KeePass; I liked that it was open source, and I
liked that it was offline and had no cloud components.

However, I also disliked that it was offline and had no cloud components...
If you only use one device, it's not so bad; But if you have a laptop, a
desktop, and a phone, then keeping those three databases up to date can be
a chore.

So now I use LastPass. I like that it's online and always cloud synced. (I
know... I'm being really wishy-washy about my needs and desires here)
But... It isn't open source, and I am putting all my eggs in one basket,
and it's a basket I have to trust blindly...  But damn, if it isn't
convenient...

I tend to recommend KeePass to people anyway, despite it not working for my
needs... Keeping the database synced isn't an impossible task or anything,
and it's obviously easier if you only want to use it in one place.

KeePass itself is Windows-only, but works just fine under Mono. Being open
source, there are other implementations... But I never had a problem with
their official software on Ubuntu or Fedora... But it's been a while now.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 00:42 Loren M. Lang <lorenl at north-winds.org> wrote:

> I've recently been informed that an old website I once created an
> account on has been compromised, and, oh, they also stored all user
> passwords in plain text and were likely all stolen. Luckily, I've long
> replaced that password with several others on any services I currently
> use. Since I ultimately can't vet most web services I use and check the
> quality of their password hashing and salt algorithms, I'm thinking it's
> time to start generating a unique password for pretty much every service
> I use. What kind of password managers do you use for handling all this?
>
> In the past, I used to maintain them all in a GnuPG encrypted file and
> edit it through a Vim plugin, but that doesn't synchronize well.
> Ideally, I'd like something that will store passwords on-disk in an
> encrypted form and have some way to synchronize the database across
> devices. I tend to use Linux, macOS, and Android. I also use a mixture
> of both Firefox and Chrome so it would be nice to have some kind of
> integration. Oh, and no security application would be complete without
> being open source!
>
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