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Ask HN: Password Sharing with 3rd Parties?
How do you share passwords with third parties that do not use the same tools as you?
For example:
- share a password with someone who uses a different, incompatible password manager
- share a password with someone who does not use the same end-to-end encrypted platform
Particularly with someone who is not a technical person, so using GPG or PGP encryption is NOT an option. It's got to be something just as simple as opening a link/e-mail/message but secure and end-to-end encrypted.
- phren0logy 5y ago1Password has a way to do this that's pretty easy and secure. Seems worth a look. https://support.1password.com/share-items/ https://support.1password.com/share-items/
- manyManny 5y agothat's not much safer than an e-mail link unfortunately. Ideally, the security of the tool would be comparable to GPG encryption
- figassis 5y agoIf you need to transmit it securely you’d need a shared secret. A password that everyone already knows. You would also create a Whatsapp group that is E2E encrypted (or any of the other chat apps that have the same security) and share there.
- manyManny 5y agoOne password, even if it was very long (50 chars), may not be secure enough. Especially given the prevalence of powerful GPUs these days. But I agree that's a simple way of doing things yeah.
- aborsy 5y agoAlways encrypted with the public key of the other side and sent. Mostly PGP, otherwise signal.
- manyManny 5y agoI know PGP is the right way here, but its way too technical for the average person. Think lawyers or doctors, people with little technical background, with who you need to one-time share your private info securely. Its got to be something simpler than PGP/GPG. Thus far I found https://www.sharedrop.io/ https://www.sharedrop.io/