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Comment by buro9

The way I read it... it's a password manager that doesn't store passwords (centrally or locally).

Instead it regenerates the password each time.

i.e. password for HN may be: some trait of HN (domain?) + some salt + your identity (cert?) to always produce the same password.

I didn't understand it all from the site, the explanations and broken English didn't really elucidate. But... if my understanding was right, I wondered about how to handle cert changes or key rolling, etc. There seemed to be a mentioned mechanism for this, but again I didn't really understand that from the description.

Gist though: No generated and stored passwords, but a pattern to always generate the same password for a given site.

parent buro9 10 years ago

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