[PLUG] Password keeper

Tim Garton garton.tim at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 21:18:24 UTC 2018


I used keepass2 for a while but found it to be quite buggy on linux.  For a
while after that I used keepassx (https://www.keepassx.org/) and it was
pretty good, but recently I switched to keeweb (https://keeweb.info/) - I
like the UI better and it has support for MFA/OTP built in.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:40 AM 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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