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Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
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Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#242Shamir Secret Sharing is notoriously difficult to implement correctly, and even the smallest most subtle bugs result in total compromise. Consider whether you really need this. Doing 7-choose-5 separate multiparty encryptions is way harder to screw up. Is having to produce 42 ciphertexts really a dealbreaker?
They are using the Hashicorp Vault implementation, and it's been around for years. I think we can safely say they know what they are doing.
Can we?
Hashicorp is a devops company, not a cryptography company. The "hash" in their name bears no reference to cryptographic hashing.
If the implementation came from DJB, or RSA corporation, or the OpenSSH developers that would be one thing.
Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#243We use Vaultwarden and Bitwarden to share passwords with the family. My wife has my master password and I have hers. The bigger issue if I drop dead is all the nontrivial tech crap I have set up (self hosted Vaultwarden included…).
Honest question: what is the benefit of such a specialized service compared to just an encrypted file with all your passwords that you share via some common file sharing service (hosted or self-hosted)
Well, we already use password managers for all their benefits: autofill, syncing, password generation, passkey storage etc.
For a while we’re using `pass` which doesn’t have an easy way to share passwords, so my wife and I had duplicates of a handful of passwords, which was annoying when they changed, or when we needed to share a new one.
Moving to Bitwarden meant that we can have a set of passwords that are shared, and we can update or add to it. As the kids have gotten older, I’ve get them using it too, so we can share a small set of passwords with them (wifi, streaming services etc).