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by sunshine-o 607 days ago
This is actually a better outcome than finding out one day the app have a serious security problem.

While i like `pass` and that Android app looked really good, this is just not serious.

Because the fact that most people will end up trusting a random app as their password manager because it has 2k star on Github is crazy.

If you want to use `pass` on Android you should tinker something with termux .

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In actually SSH into my desktop PC and use pass there to access my secrets.

Luckily, I only need to do this occasionally, so the inconvenience is bearable. Still waiting on the day where I randomly get logged out of an important app while not having internet access, or the power going out in my apartment right after I leave for two weeks (happened once, luckily didn't need my passwords then).

The point of `pass` is to offload the security aspect to gpg, so unless something goes wrong with that, I don't believe continued use, even if unmaintained, is very insecure.
The Android app will by necessity receive the decrypted passwords from GPG to display and copy them to the clipboard. It could do whatever else it wants with them.
I think termux has some limitations here (due to missing libraries), namely gpg decryption via hardware keys.