Pass4Win VS age

Compare Pass4Win vs age and see what are their differences.

Pass4Win

Windows version of Pass (http://www.passwordstore.org/) (by mbos)

age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. (by FiloSottile)
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Pass4Win age
2 214
171 15,298
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0.0 4.9
almost 2 years ago 10 days ago
C# Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Pass4Win

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pass4Win. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.
  • Quel gestionnaire de mots de passe utilisez-vous ?
    3 projects | /r/AskFrance | 4 Feb 2023
  • Pass: The standard Unix password manager
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021
    I've been using pass for several years now and I recommend it to my friends, but I usually get weird looks when I say I store my passwords in a git repo (it's not as bad as it sounds!). Here's why:

    - I host my git repo on my desktop computer (through SSH), so it's not exposed anywhere except if you have SSH access to my computer. (A lot of people seem to think git = GitHub which is not true).

    - The passwords are GPG encrypted so even if it were leaked that would be okay as long as my secret key remains secure.

    As far as usability goes, I usually use the -c option to copy/paste my passwords. I used a browser extension for awhile, but I haven't gotten around to reinstalling since the copy/paste works fine for me. Syncing with my phone and Linux devices works perfectly (since it's just git).

    The Windows client seems to be no longer maintained [1], so I would like better support here for my Surface. But this is still okay since I can SSH to my desktop computer from Windows and copy/paste the passwords from there.

    [1] https://github.com/mbos/Pass4Win#readme

age

Posts with mentions or reviews of age. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Pass4Win and age you can also consider the following projects:

pass-import - A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

pass-code - A pass extension that obscures the filenames and folder hierarchy within your password store.

Picocrypt - A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.

prs - šŸ” A secure, fast & convenient password manager CLI using GPG and git to sync.

rage - A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

OpenKeychain - OpenKeychain is an OpenPGP implementation for Android.

age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age

passage - A fork of password-store (https://www.passwordstore.org) that uses age (https://age-encryption.org) as backend.

minisign - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.

gopass - The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams