Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
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Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#2Cool idea, but the main gripe I have with it is that the passwords it generates are clearly not made for remembering, but regenerating them takes multiple seconds.
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#3How does this compare to the KeePass family of pw-managers?
(Besides that Forgiva is closed source and KeePass is open source.)
Fixes poor passwords, accessibility and storage problems with highly secure way.
What does that even mean?
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#4How does this compare to the KeePass family of pw-managers? (Besides that Forgiva is closed source and KeePass is open source.) Fixes poor passwords, accessibility and storage problems with highly secure way. What does that even mean?
>> How does this compare, for example, to the KeePass family of pw-managers?
It is a password manager too but with an alternative approach.
>> "Fixes poor passwords, accessibility and storage problems with highly secure way." >> What does that even mean?
Generates strong passwords by default, you can access them anywhere with it and does not need to store anywhere.
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#5I was planning to write one as I do not like existing ones but time is a slight issue: without versions for all platforms and some way to keep them in sync it is hard to switch...
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#6How does this compare to the KeePass family of pw-managers? (Besides that Forgiva is closed source and KeePass is open source.) Fixes poor passwords, accessibility and storage problems with highly secure way. What does that even mean?
>> How does this compare, for example, to the KeePass family of pw-managers? It is a password manager too but with an alternative approach. >> "Fixes poor passwords, accessibility and storage problems with highly secure way." >> What does that even mean? Generates strong passwords by default, you can access them anywhere with it and does not need to store anywhere.
Ok, cool that you can access it anywhere.
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#7These security experts forgot one really important thing: usability. I'm not going to wait minutes for one password to generate!
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#8How does this compare to the KeePass family of pw-managers? (Besides that Forgiva is closed source and KeePass is open source.) Fixes poor passwords, accessibility and storage problems with highly secure way. What does that even mean?
The way I read it... it's a password manager that doesn't store passwords (centrally or locally).
Instead it regenerates the password each time.
i.e. password for HN may be: some trait of HN (domain?) + some salt + your identity (cert?) to always produce the same password.
I didn't understand it all from the site, the explanations and broken English didn't really elucidate. But... if my understanding was right, I wondered about how to handle cert changes or key rolling, etc. There seemed to be a mentioned mechanism for this, but again I didn't really understand that from the description.
Gist though: No generated and stored passwords, but a pattern to always generate the same password for a given site.
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#9Does this implement Shamir's Secret Sharing?
Re: Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
#10I use getvau.lt, how does this compare?