KeepassXC: progress on port to Qt6

Josselin , 3 months ago

I use Pass by the way 😎

boredsquirrel OP , 3 months ago

Whats that?

Josselin , 3 months ago

It’s a Password Manager for Linux which you can use for free on all your devices (computer, iPhone, etc…) using Git and GPG Keys! It supports OTP with pass-otp.

vrighter , 3 months ago

one of the extensions has the description: “an easy flow to update passwords”

If that has to be an extension, then this sucks

lemmyreader , 3 months ago

Does KeePassXC work on the command line and over ssh connections ? pass does.

boredsquirrel OP , 3 months ago

With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

This sounds cool, but relies completely on OpenPGP. That is secure enough, right?

But this also means

• no metadata security
• no usernames
• no comment

It is cool, but only having a single entry means you can not replace the website with a more anonymous placeholder.

For sure this tool sounds pretty great! Especially encrypting everything seperately is very nice.

But sometimes getting a name might already be too much.

Also to avoid big brother connecting all data, I normally have an entry like

<span style="color:#323232;">Entry: MSOffice
</span><span style="color:#323232;">username: [email protected]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">password: •••••••••••••••••••••
</span><span style="color:#323232;">URL: xxxxx
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Comment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Username: xxxxxxxxx
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   name: albert einstein
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   birthday: 2.6.1956
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Security question 1 2 3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   TOTP backup keys: xxxx
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Random comment
</span>

This is all not possible, which means I would need the same username everywhere, or remember it (I dont, I have 300 Keepass entries).

In KeepassXC I have a single file. Hackers would need to bruteforce only one. But at least they wouldnt know exactly what they want to decrypt.

lemmyreader , 3 months ago

Sure, I see what you mean. Note that I responded to the “this sucks” remark about pass by the other commenter. There is no one preventing you to use for example one password entry with Pass on a remote work server logging in with ssh sharing it with a colleague while having the other 100 password work entries kept in KeePassXC and then using Bitwarden for your 200 personal passwords.

boredsquirrel OP , 3 months ago

Yup, it is really cool! I have to learn to use it and use it on occasions

boredsquirrel OP , 3 months ago

I wonder if you could just encrypt a storage which is then used by pass unencrypted. So you have double encryption using something like gocryptfs.

PlexSheep , 3 months ago

That’s not really the point though. You wouldn’t argue that you can’t use Firefox over ssh.

moon_matter , 3 months ago

KeepassXC is bundled with a CLI tool. But it doesn't have to do anything special for SSH. It's ultimately just text and there are multiple ways to paste text into an SSH session.

vrighter , 3 months ago

there is the keepassxc-cli command. And it also supports ssh keys with integration with ssh-agent. So yeah

boredsquirrel OP , 3 months ago

You can just use pass edit path/to/entry

warmaster , 3 months ago

Holy mother of Linus, by using git you get full password history. Really nice!

Josselin , 3 months ago

You will never be able to go back, it’s a path without going back.