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by Michal_B 1939 days ago
That is some great feedback.

* backup/restore: It actually has a great backup feature because you can save everything to a file from time to time and keep the file wherever you want (the file itself can be accessed and decrypted as it is a self contained application), there is also a restore option because if someone wants, they can copy their whole vault text or even decrypted text and move it between files or online account - advanced tab (I just have to describe that in FAQ). Still I plan to add an import from file and a merge option to get your backup files integrated quickly.

* Non-web distribution: I think that is how most web based password managers do, even LastPass is no different here but I am planning to create a GitHub repo although it doesn't change much. I would love to learn more about how to do such web distribution.

There is however one big advantage PassPilot can be saved to a single HTML file and used totally off the grid so you can be sure no one can manipulate that, you can even disconnect from internet when using the offline file, no html password manager will give you that (I don't count the EXE password managers as they are compiled so you don't know what sits there), here nothing is compiled you can examine the code in your notepad.

* TOTP generation: there are many features I haven't thought about as I wanted the application to be simple but I will look into that.

Once again thanks for the great feedback!

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Thanks, I see backup/restore is more-or-less there.

For the non-web distribution... I'm currently a keepassXC user so I'm used to getting it from my distro and having installed software, and having transparency of updates. I guess this is probably not a dealbreaker though, just requires trust.