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Honest question: why doesn’t everyone just use hash functions for passwords. Generating a Base64 string from a secret salt + the website name sounds ideal. This is what I do, and it works very well.

base can be decoded. hash cannot be reversed (should not be able to). That means if someone gets the hash, he can only guess the password based on hasing all his guesses and checking the outputs. that takes a long time compared to being able to decode and read the password directly.

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post #6

Honest question: why doesn’t everyone just use hash functions for passwords. Generating a Base64 string from a secret salt + the website name sounds ideal. This is what I do, and it works very well.

How do you handle password rotations? I am intrigued regardless.

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#14
post #6

Honest question: why doesn’t everyone just use hash functions for passwords. Generating a Base64 string from a secret salt + the website name sounds ideal. This is what I do, and it works very well.

I’ve thought about a similar method but I’m not sure it would be portable for me. First I do not always have access to a bashing function. Secondly what happens if a website url/name changes? For me, I can’t remember all the exact details so I use a manager

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

#15

Bitwarden

This! I’ve moved from LastPass to BitWarden and I like the clients way better. Browser extensions, Desktop, Mobile (iOS), CLI all work pretty great.

It’s core is opensource and you can run your own server if you want.

For my less critical accounts even the 2FA token is stored in it.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

#16
1passwordx nowadays is actually better than my 1password OSX experience. You should try it. I'm slowly moving myself off of OSX over to manjaro and I was shocked at how good 1px worked. It's more "the full app" than it is a "mini mini" like I assumed it'd be, but admittedly I haven't used it for a full 8 hour work day yet so maybe I'll have complaints in a few months.

I cannot wait to finally get off of 1password completely, though. Their latest mini update is an absolute joke. They break app functionality or they shove a detour in my workflow several times a year. Usually connectivity between the miniapp and full app break and when you're someone who enters passwords all day long you really start to notice how much slower you are when your workflow changes. I've had to reinstall the app multiple times this year because some $bug broke connectivity between the browser and the full app.

1pass's android app STILL does not have a password generator built inso you'll never want to create accounts using it but the rest of its functionality is pretty good. This is a huge annoyance of mine. I shouldn't have to go grab my laptop to make an account just to make sure I'm not using one of my in-memory passwords. Whatever password manager I pick would need full android integration.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

#17
post #6

Honest question: why doesn’t everyone just use hash functions for passwords. Generating a Base64 string from a secret salt + the website name sounds ideal. This is what I do, and it works very well.

How do you handle password rotations? I am intrigued regardless.

A new salt probably

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

#19

I use pass[0], which is essentially just a wrapper on top of Git and GPG. All your secrets are stored in text files that are then encrypted by your GPG key, which is then tracked in a Git repo that you can store anywhere. I use the PassFF extension[1] for Firefox, and Password Store for Android[2]. There are plenty of pass-compatible clients for all platforms and extensions for pass on the first site. If I need to ge…

I use pass as well, along with a dmenu/rofi script.
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