Show HN: A-Pass – small little password manager
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Re: Show HN: A-Pass – small little password manager
#2None of the existing password managers filled my need, so i started to write my own (not the crypto ofcourse). Here it is :)
Why did I do it? I'm totaly dependend on my password managing software, all my passwords are generated by random so non of them are rememberable. During the last years I felt that my expectations and the traits of the password manager I was using grew appart. I dislike subscription based software (especialy if i might need it to extract/recover my secrets out of an old file). I dislike Web-UIs in native Apps. So i was looking around but when I had an incident where a licensed password vault just forgot that it was licenced and denied access I had enough. I wanted something that had a UI but also a data format that enables recovery with very little tools. So thats what I started to create.
A-Pass saves its secrets as json content encrypted by age[1] (so no hasseling with gpg). No information is visible without decrypting the files (no names / no urls). The file structure should be easy to sync, but its not implemented yet.
Looking forward to input & comments :)