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Ask HN: Cross platform password manager without cloud?

12 pointsby thefreemanover 10 years ago
Seriously, I have been trying for months to find a solution that fits my need.<p>- Cross platform (at least Linux and Windows, preferably Android)<p>- Lets me keep my own data and sync it however I want<p>- Integrates with browsers via autotype &#x2F; plugins &#x2F; extensions<p>Keepass is not the answer. KeepassX (the linux compatible version) is only compatible with Keepass (for windows) version 1, which has <i>no</i> browser integration.<p>LastPass would be fine but they keep my data.<p>1Password doesn&#x27;t work on linux.<p>Am I just missing something? It really doesn&#x27;t seem like my needs are that unreasonable. Is it just that nobody really cares about keeping their passwords in &quot;the cloud&quot;?

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pwgover 10 years ago
You are missing one. Password Gorilla: <a href="https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zdia&#x2F;gorilla&#x2F;wiki</a><p>Cross platform (Linux, Windows, Mac for Password Gorilla itself).<p>Several Android apps that inter-operate with the same format password storage file (Bruce Shiner&#x27;s PasswordSafe format file). Scroll part way down the above page to find references to some of the Android apps.<p>Your passwords are stored in an encrypted file stored on your local machine. You can do with the encrypted file what you wish. PWGorilla itself includes a merge feature that merges encrypted files together, and alerts you to the differences so you can fix things up.<p>Its browser integration is through the OS clipboard. However on Linux the integration is almost to the level of an auto-type plugin (because the X11 clipboard works in a way that allows the better integration).<p>So, it fits these of your requirements:<p>Cross platform (Linux, Windows [check], Android [secondary app])<p>Lets you keep your own data and sync it however you want [check].<p>Integrates with browsers [partial check].<p>So it&#x27;s close. Not 100%, but close. It is also GPL open source, so you&#x27;ve got nothing to lose in giving it a try.<p>[edit: add a couple paragraph breaks]
lutuspover 10 years ago
&gt; Cross platform password manager without cloud?<p>Interesting you should mention this. I just got done installing Keepassx on Linux, but it&#x27;s cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux):<p><a href="http://www.keepassx.org/downloads/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keepassx.org&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;</a><p>Also, easier, if you&#x27;re running a Debian-based Linux:<p># apt-get install keepassx<p>And finally, there&#x27;s an Android-compatible program that reads and uses the same database file in the same way:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.keepass&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.android.ke...</a><p>After creating some passwords I tested all the versions&#x27; ability to read and issue passwords from the master database, it went off without a hitch.<p>BTW all the versions are free.<p>As to &quot;without cloud&quot;, no problem, just copy the master database around to where you need it. I have an easy way to directly copy (i.e. no cloud involvement) the database from my desktop machine (where I create and test the passwords) to my Android devices, where it works perfectly.<p>EDIT: Oops, I see you want a Windows version with browser integration. Sorry, I didn&#x27;t test that mode.
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diafygiover 10 years ago
KeePassX is testing a KeePass 2.0 compatible release[1]. There&#x27;s even a PPA for that version[2].<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.keepassx.org/news/2014/04/433" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keepassx.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;433</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://launchpad.net/~keepassx/+archive/ubuntu/daily" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;launchpad.net&#x2F;~keepassx&#x2F;+archive&#x2F;ubuntu&#x2F;daily</a>
Alupisover 10 years ago
KeePass<p><a href="http://keepass.info/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;keepass.info&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Oops, didn&#x27;t see you already looked at it. Well, KeePass doesn&#x27;t necessarily need browser integration -- get yourself a cheap VPS, put your db file on there, and just point your local KeePass at it (it&#x27;s entrypted and password protected, or key-file protected, etc).<p>There is also an Android version for KeePass. So... seems it would fit all your use-cases.
gintsmuransover 10 years ago
Well its not yet cross platform and lacks autotype stuff (because is a text editor), but obviously I would like to vote for my own made text encryption App for osx: <a href="http://textcrypt.4apps.lv/app/updates/TextCrypt_1.0.424.zip" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;textcrypt.4apps.lv&#x2F;app&#x2F;updates&#x2F;TextCrypt_1.0.424.zip</a> :)
datrover 10 years ago
KeePass 2 can be run under Mono on both Linux and Mac OSX.
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