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why don't go with http://www.passwordstore.org/ (pass)?

pass is just a 500 line bash GPG wrapper, and a git repo. You can audit easily the code. You shouldn't have your password manager, the most succulent software, to be 5000[1] lines of code in c++. You don't need a single point of failure. You don't need to build trust in a new developer and it's desire to keep mantaining and updating the software. Just use already proven tools for data at rest: GPG.

Also, pass has implementations for Android, iOS, web browser extensions, etc.

[1] ~/fort $ wc -l .cpp .h *.ui : 5079 total

The biggest downside to passwordstore, and I say this as somebody using it, is that your password-filenames are in clear.

That means an attacker who gains access to your files can see you have particular accounts:

     ~/.passwordstore/websites/evil.com
     ~/.passwordstore/websites/sexy.com

It's unfortunate these aren't encrypted, hashed, or otherwise masked.

And one can argue that if an attacker can do that, they are already inside the machine. To that effect, they could just put a bogus pass binary in ~/bin and extract all your passwords.

Yet if you use this solution (or keepass or whatever you want) you are exposing yourself to attacks to those codebases. Which normally are monstruos for the most juicy of programs: a password manager.

Version number is 0.2 so yes it has less features than KeepassX. There will be more features in the near future. This was just really "release early, release often"-kind of thing.

Keep it up, it is looking great, clean and simple. I like it!

Interesting, but I agree KeePassX is better it has more features.

Thanks I was exactly looking for your comment :)

What is the advantage oder using KeePass(X) which works on all platforms?

There might not be an advantage now. Just as KeePass has grown, this one might too. Competition, even in open source, is great!

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