1Password for Linux development preview

Post by bwoodruff » Fri, Aug 07, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

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Shacklz wrote: post #253

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There are also advantages for the user. For example, new features arrive for all platforms at the same time; there is no prioritization of platforms or such. Same for bugs - apart from issues stemming from Electron itself, they're likely to appear on all platforms and therefore likelier to get fixed. In essence, the old "only X% of our users use platform Y, it's not worth it to make this feature/fix this bug for them…

None of these are advantages over other, better cross-platform toolkits.

Post by still_grokking » Fri, Aug 07, 2020, 6:36 PM UTC

bwoodruff wrote: post #338

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The Linux priorities I outlined are fundamentally different. It’s a demand that the maker of the software alter the core of their business model. This is very different from asking for a native UI or to use a core OS API, etc. Again, it’s fine to ask for a radical business change or require it but the frequency of this as a demand does help explain why few companies go down this path. (As for 1Password abandoning one…

Thanks for the comments. The crypto is open source. We use the ring library: https://github.com/briansmith/ring - Ben, 1Password

Post by hrez » Fri, Aug 07, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

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Would you mind sharing it, so that other people don't have to go through the same pain you did? Maybe even creating an issue and dropping the code there could be helpful. Then somebody could pick it up and reuse the algorithms you wrote. That'd be pretty great.

https://gist.github.com/ben0x539/9cf66dd8347c264179a89944278... Caveat that it doesn't emit a csv you can import elsewhere, it's not extremely polished, hasn't ever been run outside of my laptop, just does a bunch of unnecessarily clever things. Needs the 1password commandline utility `op` set up (ie you have to have told it your secret key already). It'll create `items/` and `documents/` dirs with one file per, well…

Post by awinder » Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 7:22 PM UTC

nuker wrote: post #281

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I’m a recent windows 10 convert from Mac and a 1password user for years, I have disagreements with my buddy who is a long time windows user along these lines _all_ the time. He thinks I’m insane for essentially paying for UI I prefer (I would disagree I think there’s some structural differences, but I’m okay with being reduced to that too). It’s like asking why someone buys anything, the products exist and sell and m…

> I’m a recent windows 10 convert from Mac What happened, if not too sensitive to share, of course.

Post by bwoodruff » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

jolux wrote: post #183

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But that's the point the OP is making, you have to trust what 1password is telling you. And they do have a very clear business interest in telling you that it uses best security practices even if they don't. I'm doubtful that you are able to look at the binaries and extract the inner workings from that.

>But that's the point the OP is making, you have to trust what 1password is telling you. Yeah, I have to trust a lot of software authors not to be actively malicious, because I don't have the time to audit literally everything I rely on. I have more reason to trust the authors of 1Password than those of almost any other package I use. >And they do have a very clear business interest in telling you that it uses best s…