Timeline for Is this idea for a password manager secure? If so, why doesn't anybody use it?
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| Jul 16, 2015 at 17:09 | comment | added | Nobody | stuff like selecting different algorithms or chaining them in different ways? that's what I meant with "how and what you are hashing" I just tried to keep it more general because I'm sure there are other things you could vary and I'm not sure chaining is really a good idea, that's just what came to my mind. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 17:00 | comment | added | gaborous | "from a leaked password you could compromise all the others" this could easily be defeated by allowing the user to setup some generation parameters. Yes now the user would not only have to remember the master password but also some config parameters, but at least it would be almost impossible to break the other passwords from a leak because the algorithm would not be enough, you'd also need the generation parameters. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 16:57 | history | edited | Nobody | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jul 16, 2015 at 16:51 | history | answered | Nobody | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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