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> 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
by 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...