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by w8rbt 3289 days ago
The master password of the password manager has the same issue plus the burden of storage.
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patrickmn 3289 days ago
It's not the same issue. With your approach, a compromise of the seed is catastrophic and reveals everything. With a regular password manager, you also need access to the vault encrypted using that master password. That's not a given -- most password managers either store their vaults locally or offer 2FA when synced.

(Nevermind that you can't change individual passwords or the master password at will with a deterministic scheme.)

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simondedalus 3289 days ago
and the virtue of allowing a single point of 2FA.

the seed is just the seed, and will always be the seed. the master password can change and be supplemented by 2FA / other enhancement schemes.

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w8rbt 3289 days ago
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. See the code I posted. There is no unchangeable static seed.
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