Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by simonebrunozzi on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:07PM
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I am not 100% sold on one particular password manager. Any hints/suggestions?
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Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by AjithAntony on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:24PM
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I like Keepass becuase it is not tied to any ongoing subscriptions or providers. You can use the file sync tool of your choice to distribute your file. The downside/feature is not having tight browser/app integration.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by deadcast on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:41PM
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Yeah KeePass is great! I currently use KeePass2 on my Trisquel 7 machine. I use that app in conjunction with Deja Dup to back up my password database to S3. There's even an app on the fdroid store called KeePassDroid but I've yet to make it work. I think the version on the store hasn't been recently updated.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by theandrewbailey on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:38PM
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Integrations and plugins exist, and for me, browser integration was easy to set up.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by jmcphers on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:03PM
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I use KeePass. It's not too hard to make KeePass into a fairly secure, distributed password manager. I have a writeup on how I did this here:
https://jmcphers.github.io/security/2016/05/08/passwords.htm...
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by buildbot on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:41PM
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I really enjoy how simple pass is :
https://www.passwordstore.org/
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by qutebird on Saturday November 12, 2016 @03:38AM
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I use pass too and love it, but it is worth noting that the names of the passwords are not encrypted, meta data based on the names can be extracted. The naming scheme is fully up to you though, but if you don't want to expose meta data at all, I'd recommend keepass instead.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by CaptSpify on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:22PM
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Personally I like keepass. I don't love it, and it's UI could definitely use some work, but it suites my needs fairly well.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by starmilk on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:29PM
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I also use Keepass[x]! The issue that I see people facing is that it isn't multi-device (it's an offline password manager).
For me, that is the selling point though.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by CaptSpify on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:17PM
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> For me, that is the selling point though.
Me too! Though I'm curious as to what you mean by multi-device? I use it on multiple devices just fine, though I have to sync them by hand.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by blacksmith_tb on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:34PM
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At a guess, that it won't allow two devices to open the same db file (the first writes a lockfile). This does at least prevent corruption...
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by CaptSpify on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:48PM
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Well it's an offline program, so two devices can't open the same file anyway.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by jmuguy on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:48PM
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I love 1password. The team behind it seems really dedicated and the various applications for each platform show a level of polish you'd expect from a team like that.
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by entilzha on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:10PM
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1password is a bit spendy, but I have found the convenience it provides to be valuable (browser integration, TouchId on iOS, and a few other things)
Re:How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
by petervandijck on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:03PM
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I've tried many (1pass, ...), and hated them, now finally I am using Dashlane and it's pretty good. Still needs a little bit of work/love, but it mostly just works. I'm paying for the sync version, I don't mind paying for a usable way to have strong passwords all around.