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Not all password managers are commercial, closed-source, and cloud-connected. This probably wasn't a main point of yours, but since you mentioned LastPass I felt this should be clarified.

I'm currently using PasswordSafe (in Wine on Linux) with git to version/synchronize between systems. It is kinda painful, but at least it's nice to not be syncing to somebody's cloud or running in a browser.

I've been thinking about converting an old Android device into a more secure password manager. I envision having the device hold the decryption key for the PW "vault" as long as it's connected to my authenticated system. I either request credentials from the PC and approve on-device, or select them on the screen, and it types them as a USB keyboard (or perhaps some other way less prone to garden-variety keyloggers.) I guess I haven't because it's kind of a lot of effort and will lower convenience levels. :)

I ought to at least find a better way than the clipboard, to transfer passwords from the manager app to the browser etc...

parent scintill76 11 years ago

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