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Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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Roboform

It's crazy Roboform is still around. They didn't honor my old purchase so i moved on from them. Their product from a far also doesn't look that good in 2017. Did not expect to see a serious mention of Roboform in this thread though!

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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post #71

I use passpack.com.

Do you know people who run it? Doesn't seem very popular. The prices are pretty expensive with their in my opinion bad limitations on their plans. Limiting by number of password seems lame. Their allowance of a lot of shared users might be good but I'm not completely sure what that means.

Not sure why anyone would use them over Lastpass or 1Password.

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do the trouble of replying but fail to explain your reasons? That's wasting your own time mostly. I would recommend 1password over lastpass as well. First reason being the security issues of lastpass chrome extension. Though claimed it is fixed now they have claimed before on other issues only to be proven wrong after. I simply don't trust them anymore with my data. But even more I would choose 1password over its…

I understand why it makes people uncomfortable to know that they're not getting all the information I could possibly convey in a comment. I don't see how that would make it better for me to not comment at all.

If it's too much for a content, how about a link to a source that articulates your point? I'm sure many people would appreciate more complete information.

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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post #150

Just a follow up: what do you use for secrets files, like ssh keys? Everytime I find my self in some mess with too many keys to manage. :\

I use 1PW since I'm already on it. It does involve copy pasting stuff over to it and my own organization of tags etc

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

#256

Answering this question publicly is a very bad idea.

Lie! Now any would be culprits if you are actually targeted will go after the wrong thing.

I answered publicly because I don't put my few most important info into my password manager I have mentioned here (or do I?) - 2 main emails, FB, main bank accounts, main brokerages. Few most important SSH keys and pws. Anything else getting taken would suck, but I don't think too much harm can as long as the above are safe. Maybe I'm being myopic.

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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post #55

This is my password manager. password = b64encode(hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac( 'sha256', (master_password + '/' + domain).encode(), b'', 100000 + n )).decode()[0:16] + 'Aa$1' master_password = some master password that you never write or store anywhere domain = domain name for the service in question, e.g. 'facebook.com' n = the nth password being generated for the domain (typically 0) The 'Aa$1' is to ensure satisfaction of…

>The 'Aa$1' is to ensure satisfaction of stupid password rules on various websites.

"Your password is too long"

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

#259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do the trouble of replying but fail to explain your reasons? That's wasting your own time mostly. I would recommend 1password over lastpass as well. First reason being the security issues of lastpass chrome extension. Though claimed it is fixed now they have claimed before on other issues only to be proven wrong after. I simply don't trust them anymore with my data. But even more I would choose 1password over its…

I understand why it makes people uncomfortable to know that they're not getting all the information I could possibly convey in a comment. I don't see how that would make it better for me to not comment at all.

I understand why you don't want to go digging up information to link, especially if using a phone. In this case, I think sharing a little truth about LastPass may benefit our community.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/security/2017/0...

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

1Password is the only commercial password manager I recommend, but I'll go further than that when it comes to LastPass and say: I really think you should avoid LastPass, and, if you're using it, migrate to something else. I'm not going to go into details, sorry.

LastPass is the only commercial password manager I recommend. I really think you should avoid 1Password. I'm not going to go into details, sorry.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/security/2017/0...
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