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Show HN: keys - a password manager for hackers

2 pointsby aretealmost 12 years ago

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bhaueralmost 12 years ago
Anything by Will Glozer requires an upvote in my book.<p>Plus, as a private, installable, client-server solution, this is genuine progress toward solving the problem posted by a recent Ask HN question: &quot;How does your business manage passwords?&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6061415" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6061415</a>
aretealmost 12 years ago
keys (<a href="https://github.com/wg/keys" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wg&#x2F;keys</a>) is the password manager I&#x27;ve always wanted. It&#x27;s a client&#x2F;server application with a command line UI, and the server can run on a mobile device so your credentials are available wherever needed.<p>keys is open source (GPLv3) and includes a basic Android app that runs the server. The code should run on iOS as well, but the lack of background networking is an issue.<p>keys provides strong protection for credentials. For details please read SECURITY, but to summarize everything is encrypted with AES in GCM mode using a randomly generated key, which in turn is encrypted with with a key derived from a password via the scrypt KDF. Network communication occurs over mutually authenticated TLS 1.2 connections.<p>If you&#x27;d like to try the Android app without the hassle of building it yourself, please join <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/keys-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!forum&#x2F;keys-app</a> and I&#x27;ll send you a Play store beta test link.<p>Enjoy!