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by potatosareok 4117 days ago
I don't particularly favor putting all my passwords in an online password manager. So I have some JavaFX gui I made that encrypts a password file (passphrase => PKDF => AES). In total it's like 200 lines of code - GUI, storing pass, generating pass, and rotating master password. The encrypted file I keep synced in my cloud storage.

But in retrospect I don't know if this makes any real difference from something like keepass. My encrypted file is transferred over some secure socket, so an attacker can at least a copy of the encrypted file if they either hack the cloud storage provider or somehow hijack my connection.

It's not exactly super portable but for sites I care about, I wouldn't log onto them on untrusted computers anyway.