Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by eli » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

lotsofcows wrote: post #19

A couple of KeePass files in DropBox.

Same here, but I don't love it as a solution. Kinda cumbersome, especially if you've got different groups of users who need access to different (overlapping) services. And then of course you have to communicate (and hopefully occasionally rotate) the master password(s).

Price is right, though.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by Diederich » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:34 PM UTC

I might have missed it, but has HN done any kind of review of zerobin? http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by josefresco » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

Google Drive/Docs.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by jcfrei » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:36 PM UTC

If there's no other way than using a shared password, you might resort to using the gnupg suite to encrypt it (and then share it with your favourite messenger/mail client). The necessary programs are usually pre-installed on your distribution.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by petval » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:36 PM UTC

KeePass with triggers for synchronization, it syncs on opening and closing the db. Two factor authentication for the db files and separate db file for every unique group.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by johnnymonster » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:37 PM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #28

gaadd33 wrote: post #15

We use https://commonkey.com/ , it works pretty great and all the encryption is done client side (although the usual caveats about javascript encryption still hold)

I read that as com monkey. :D

so did I!

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:38 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

#38

Post by icebraining » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:40 PM UTC

hussong wrote: post #12

passpack.com -- have been using it for a few years now and never looked back.

Clickable, for lazy people like me: https://www.passpack.com/

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by peterwwillis » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

Write it on a post-it, walk up to the person, give it to them, then take the post-it back.

Passwords are designed to be human-interface memorized authentication tokens. Sharing it any other way than via human interaction just makes it a digital key, and real digital keys are much more secure than digital passwords. So share it via human medium, or rethink why you're using a password.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Post by eddieroger » Tue, May 20, 2014, 3:45 PM UTC

Other than the default answer of "rarely," we've started using a shared 1Password vault. We actually end up using the notes functionality more than anything, but there are some common team accounts in there. Since most of us used 1Password already, it was easy peasey.