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BlockProject / b-lock

b-lock

Blockchain-powered password manager

3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
87GitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

Blockchain-powered password manager

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-06-24 17:44:47 UTC to 2018-06-25 19:02:08 UTC.

0122018-06-24 17:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-24 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 24, 17:002018-06-24 18:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-24 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-24 19:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-24 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-06-24 20:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-24 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-24 21:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-24 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-24 22:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-24 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-24 23:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 01:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 02:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 03:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 04:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 05:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 06:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 25, 06:002018-06-25 07:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 08:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 09:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 10:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 11:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 12:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 13:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 14:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 15:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 16:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 17:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 18:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 19:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 25, 19:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 24, 17:002018-06-24 17:00:00 UTC2018-06-24 18:00:00 UTC110
Jun 24, 18:002018-06-24 18:00:00 UTC2018-06-24 19:00:00 UTC000
Jun 24, 19:002018-06-24 19:00:00 UTC2018-06-24 20:00:00 UTC202
Jun 24, 20:002018-06-24 20:00:00 UTC2018-06-24 21:00:00 UTC000
Jun 24, 21:002018-06-24 21:00:00 UTC2018-06-24 22:00:00 UTC000
Jun 24, 22:002018-06-24 22:00:00 UTC2018-06-24 23:00:00 UTC000
Jun 24, 23:002018-06-24 23:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 00:002018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 01:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 01:002018-06-25 01:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 02:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 02:002018-06-25 02:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 03:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 03:002018-06-25 03:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 04:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 04:002018-06-25 04:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 05:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 05:002018-06-25 05:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 06:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 06:002018-06-25 06:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 07:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 07:002018-06-25 07:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 08:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 08:002018-06-25 08:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 09:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 09:002018-06-25 09:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 10:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 10:002018-06-25 10:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 11:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 11:002018-06-25 11:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 12:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 12:002018-06-25 12:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 13:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 13:002018-06-25 13:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 14:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 14:002018-06-25 14:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 15:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 15:002018-06-25 15:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 16:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 16:002018-06-25 16:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 17:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 17:002018-06-25 17:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 18:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 18:002018-06-25 18:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 19:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 19:002018-06-25 19:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 20:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

4 sources
1. Please say that before people use it. Nothing at https://github.com/BlockProject/b-lock or https://blockproject.io/ says "proof of concept" or "you shouldn't use this yet." 2. You haven't proved the concept if you're not handling your key material right - among other things, if I'm still reading right, it looks like you're using the (asymmetric) wallet private key as the (symmetric) encryption key for passwords? Is this in any way safe? (Traditionally, the overwhelming consensus of the cryptography community is no.) If you need to generate new keys and unique nonces and verify IVs, you need to figure out how and where you're storing a key before you've successfully proved the concept.
In Show HN: b.lock – a blockchain-powered password manager
So they're using AES in CTR mode for encryption. They encrypt both key (website + login) and value (password) using the same key (wallet private key) and counter (1). [1] Which means you can just bruteforce popular domain names, xor encryptedPass ^ encryptedKey ^ domainName, and get first bytes of the password (depending on domain name length), just by going through some recent TXs at [2]. [1] https://github.com/BlockProject/b-lock/blob/8a19e0b404a8afee... [2] https://explorer.nebulas.io/#/address/n1qmQeLTUU6fPJMs1uwTad...
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