[ale] password Safes? (almost linux related)

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 09:21:19 EST 2013


I'm personally a fan of KeePassDroid.  It's open source, and your password
file is readable on most platforms.

-- CHS



On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse
<jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net>wrote:

> On 02.12.2013 17:28, Neal Rhodes wrote:
>
>> So, what are the thoughts on the safety of Android Password Safes?
>>
>>  I have been using "Secrets", but am not sure if I truly trust it with
>> really important passwords. I avoid letting it backup passwords, but
>> don't know if it's quietly sending off my passwords to
>> transylmongolia.
>>
>>  On the other hand, I don't trust myself with anything I don't use
>> weekly.
>>
>>  Is there a way of dinking with the Android permissions on a password
>> safe program to effectively prevent it from doing any outbound IP?
>>
>>  Neal Rhodes
>>  MNOP Ltd
>>
>
> I actually use Lastpass for all my password storage as I can access it
> from Windows, Linux, Android and iOS easily enough. The data is encrypted
> using your master password before being uploaded so each device utilizing
> it needs to decrypt it when retrieving the data. I also use it to generate
> random passwords for most of my website passwords. I couple it with using
> Google Authenticator for 2FA but I also have a Yubikey that I could enable
> just as well for the same purpose, I just usually have my phone with me
> more than my Yubikey.
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