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Except this all but negates the benefits of a password manager. Now if someone steals your master password, they can generate every single password you use. Us
by zootboy 9y ago
Except this all but negates the benefits of a password manager. Now if someone steals your master password, they can generate every single password you use.
Use something like Keepass / KeepassXC. Yes, it's somewhat less convenient, but remember that security and convenience are always a trade-off.
- jMyles 9y ago> Except this all but negates the benefits of a password manager. It preserves the main benefit: that I no longer need to remember a separate password for each domain in order to stop sharing passwords across them. > Now if someone steals your master password, they can generate every single password you use. So it's just a matter of keeping the seed in the user's head and nowhere else. Right? That doesn't seem to be any more serious a security challenge than keeping secure an encrypted datastore full of passwords.
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- shkkmo 9y ago> So it's just a matter of keeping the seed in the user's head and nowhere else. Right? Until you enter it on a compromised system to generate a password...