Re:Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?
by coldtea on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:30PM
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>1Password vaults are encrypted end-to-end, their database would not be worth nearly that much. It's a bunch of worthless data.
Doesn't matter for our case, since it already assumes the database potentially compromisable. The parent's comment concerned whether the "bounty for capturing a flag inside a publicly available encrypted vault" is enough. So the question is not whether the bounty is enough given it's impossible to win, but whether it's enough given it might be possible to win.
In other words, whether someone who finds an exploit to decrypt the vaults contents would get a better value by (a) revealing it to 1Password company and taking the $100K bounty, or (b) selling the exploit to people who would give millions to be able to decrypt other's vaults...
Doesn't matter for our case, since it already assumes the database potentially compromisable. The parent's comment concerned whether the "bounty for capturing a flag inside a publicly available encrypted vault" is enough. So the question is not whether the bounty is enough given it's impossible to win, but whether it's enough given it might be possible to win.
In other words, whether someone who finds an exploit to decrypt the vaults contents would get a better value by (a) revealing it to 1Password company and taking the $100K bounty, or (b) selling the exploit to people who would give millions to be able to decrypt other's vaults...