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Re: password keepers

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 03:18:40PM -0400, Dianne Skoll via linux wrote:
> Because I use a password keeper strictly for my own use and not any kind
> of sharing across a company, I use a modified version of TkPasman.
> 
> https://wbsoft.home.xs4all.nl/linux/tkpasman.html

I get NXDOMAIN from that in Chrome, because the last in the chain of
CNAMEs SERVFAILs periodically, on my local resolver or against 8.8.8.8.
Is it just my site or my part of the Internet?

> It's unfortunately no longer maintained, but I hacked it slightly to
> improve the encryption algorithm that it uses.  It stores passwords
> in a local file encrypted with openssl's aes-128 encryption algorithm.

It's not _that_ big of a deal, but it might be worth switching to
scrypt or argon2id, and AES-256. Where's the code?

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Also, though not as important, I'm not the only one who sees a broken
thread, right?

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