DOdoubled112·Apr 15, 2023
Browserpass works pretty well.
https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-extension
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4 sourcespass (passwordstore.org) backed by a remote git repo works well across Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, as all of them have decent clients available and there is working browser integration for all popular browsers using browserpass (https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-extension).
The learning curve to understand all the moving pieces and the initial setup can be more hassle than many are willing to put up with, but after the initial legwork is done, adding new devices is not that much more complicated than what it is on paid services, and using it is as simple as any of the popular services, IMHO.
In KeePassXC Audit ReportFor passwords specifically there's a similar tool, https://www.passwordstore.org/ - but it stores GPG-encrypted plain text files versioned with git, instead of managing a sqlite db
More importantly, it has Firefox and Chrome extensions for auto-filling passwords on the web https://github.com/passff/passff https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-extension
In Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store> In general I'm not sure how the YubiKey stores keys and till now I had no idea you can backup YubiKey
Well, actually you can't. You can backup keys if you create them in software and then just copy then to YubiKeys instead of moving them there. If you do that in an offline computer there is no risk of any malware stealing your keys in mid-process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701488
Setting up Yubikey and OpenPGP took me some time reading all resources on the net but once done this is just working without any hiccups.
> I'm not sure about storing the master keychein file in Git, but the workflow sounds interesting (I didn't fully understand the paragraph though).
If it's encrypted there is no much harm to be done here. The only leaking info is that by default pass uses filenames based on domain names so if you have credentials
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for news.ycombinator.com they'd be in "news.ycombinator.com.gpg" file. For me a private repo for this use case is OK.
Oh, there is a browser extension too: https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-extension#browser...
> This is next level and not of immediate interest to me. I was looking at something simpler like: https://cryptomator.org/
Yep, I do store external disk passwords in pass too. Udiskie can use a decryption command so when I put something like this in the config: `password_prompt: ["pass", "devices/{id_uuid}"]` it will grab the password from password store. This has an added benefit that I won't forget the password (it's stored alongside all others) and it's always valid (it's checked on each boot by udiskie).