FIfictioncircle·Jun 19, 2017
Valid point.
https://github.com/HainaLi/horcrux_password_manager
It is in JS at least. Underhanded C is likely an easier trick to manage.
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horcrux_password_manager
Implementation for the paper: Horcrux, A Password Manager for Paranoids. This code is a research prototype to explore password manager designs and understand trusted components and entities.
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| Jun 19, 13:00 | 2017-06-19 13:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 14:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 19, 14:00 | 2017-06-19 14:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 15:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jun 19, 15:00 | 2017-06-19 15:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 16:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 19, 16:00 | 2017-06-19 16:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 17:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 19, 17:00 | 2017-06-19 17:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 19, 18:00 | 2017-06-19 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 19:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Jun 19, 20:00 | 2017-06-19 20:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 21:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesI opened an issue on the topic. https://github.com/HainaLi/horcrux_password_manager/issues/1
In Horcrux: A Password Manager for ParanoidsI am pretty sure the code is reusing IVs for AES-CTR[0] (i.e. the encryption is worthless), because it doesn't specify an IV and Node seems to derive the IV from the key.[1] This seems like a massive footgun in Node.
I don't think their scheme results in different keys for each site, but I could be wrong.
[0] https://github.com/HainaLi/horcrux_password_manager/blob/mas...
[1] https://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_crypto_createciphe...
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