[pass] Adding support for symmetric encryption

Matthew Monaco matt at monaco.cx
Wed Jan 27 10:05:21 CET 2016



On January 27, 2016 1:54:44 AM MST, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetil.homme at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
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>On 2016-01-26 14:29, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
>> If they have your encrypted password files, most probably they also
>> have your private keys. At least for most of the people, who are
>> not using smartcards, yubikey, nitrokey, etc. (I am one of them).
>
>not at all.  since the password-store is securely encrypted, it is
>safe to use a third party as a distribution point, e.g., Github.  that
>way, I can easily pull an updated store into each of my workstations.
> this does *not* give the admins at Github any access to my passwords.
>
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>Kjetil T. Homme
>Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game
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If you don't sync to a public server, and don't use a smart card then for most people those files will be exposed together.

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