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Curious, do you use a password wallet/manager application, and if so how do you get passwords out of it and into the browser? I'd like to know if there's a bett
by nchelluri 10y ago
Curious, do you use a password wallet/manager application, and if so how do you get passwords out of it and into the browser? I'd like to know if there's a better solution. (I use a browser extension.)
- nathancahill 10y agoI think his point is that running the entire Angular 1.x framework to power a browser extension gives a large attack surface.
- nchelluri 10y agoThanks for the clarification.
- gima 10y agoYes. And to answer nchelluri's question: Auto-typing, though I believe that's available only on desktop operating systems.
- nixos 10y ago> though I believe that's available only on desktop operating systems. And on Android (where you set up the password manager as a custom keyboard), and possibly an iPhone
- andrewstuart2 10y agoGNU password manager for me, which interacts with the clipboard (or lets you do so on your own if you prefer). The same is true of Keepass for windows, although IIRC you can also let Keepass actually alt-tab to the last window and do the typing for you.
- ploxiln 10y agocopy/paste. you can't trust password manager browser extensions. Don't just take my word for it: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/769378052254015488 https://twitter.com/taviso/status/769378052254015488 There were a few high profile ones recently reported by Tavis, but there have been many in the past, and it looks like no brand of password manager has consistently written safe browser extensions. They're written to be slick-looking and convenient, the actual security isn't visible enough to be a sales/popularity boost so it suffers. This very story/issue is another example in the making.
- NeutronBoy 10y agoI use Keepass with auto-type. I know it's not perfect, but I feel better about auto-type than browser extensions.