Basic local password manager

greenjeans · Yesterday 23:28:58

Yeah so for anyone who stumbles in here thinking there may be something shiny, you don't know me so let me explain: I make dirt-simple boring featureless apps.

And that's what this is, so basic it hurts, no autofill or anything like that, basically just a sort of text-editor with encryption. You have to manually enter all your info, and to use it you'll need to copy/paste the info into whatever browser you're using. I may add a couple more things later, but i'm done for today and it actually works!

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EDX-0 · Today 00:37:13

using pass as the "backend" or rolled out your own?

greenjeans · Today 00:54:03

using pass as the "backend" or rolled out your own?

Libsodium. Simple text DB, no sqlite or json deps. .

EDX-0 · Today 00:59:53

ah, i was kinda expecting ya to build a gui wrapper for pass(1), since that was one of the suggestion for building a complete replacement to stuff like keepassxc in the thread where keepassxc was discussed, there were more suggestion in that thread tho.

greenjeans · Today 01:05:41

ah, i was kinda expecting ya to build a gui wrapper for pass(1)

A reasonable assumption, my MO is exactly that kind of thing. But in doing research for this, it seemed like libsodium was the "gold standard" for this sort of thing, and their docs are actually not bad, relevant portion:
https://doc.libsodium.org/doc/quickstart

"One-shot encryption where everything fits in memory

Create a secret key using crypto_secretbox_keygen().

Create a nonce using randombytes_buf(nonce, sizeof nonce).

Use crypto_secretbox_easy() to encrypt the message and send/store the resulting ciphertext along with the nonce. Unlike the key, the nonce doesn't have to be secret.

Use crypto_secretbox_open_easy() to decrypt the ciphertext using the same key and nonce."

So I thought hell I can muddle through that, and it would be a real step above base64, lol.

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