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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:41:53AM +0000, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: |
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> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:35:54 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> > I use Lastpass which does about the same as other password managers. |
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> Doesn't LastPass store your passwords on their servers, and weren't they |
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> compromised last year? I'll stick with KeePassX, the password database is |
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> stored and encrypted locally. Even if I put it on DropBox, hacking that |
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> will only give the encrypted database. |
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For users of KeePassX, what are its main benefits? Best I can tell it |
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offers a searchable GUI (is it accesible on the command line?), and |
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AES or Twofish encryption of a database. Is there anything else |
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special, that sets it apart from, say, the built-in encryption |
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capabilities of vim (using blowfish)? |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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