Wasted VS pam-duress

Compare Wasted vs pam-duress and see what are their differences.

Wasted

Lock and wipe on emergency. (by x13a)

pam-duress

A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which allows the establishment of alternate passwords that can be used to perform actions to clear sensitive data, notify IT/Security staff, close off sensitive network connections, etc if a user is coerced into giving a threat actor a password. (by nuvious)
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Wasted pam-duress
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422 1,315
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0.0 1.5
over 1 year ago 12 months ago
Kotlin C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Wasted

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wasted. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-24.

pam-duress

Posts with mentions or reviews of pam-duress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-10.
  • Delete files upon entering a certain password?
    1 project | /r/privacy | 18 Apr 2023
  • French Supreme court: Refusing to provide your phone password is a crime.
    5 projects | /r/privacy | 10 Nov 2022
    On Linux, there’s pam-duress: https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress
  • vault timeout options
    1 project | /r/Bitwarden | 30 Jun 2022
    Multi-step timeout would be a good alternative, especially for mobile. For desktop, I have this awesome PAM set up to remove everything associated with my regular user account.
  • Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2022
    It's actually quite simple and readily available with PAM duress [0] (at least on Linux, I'm not sure about PAM on Mac). It was also discussed here already [1]. Still, you should consider that doing so might not work in your favor.

    [0] https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28267975

  • Help with pam, specifically pam_duress
    2 projects | /r/Gentoo | 22 May 2022
    # Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 EAPI=8 inherit pam toolchain-funcs VER_COMMIT="04e607f9ab674c8dbbf27ea8bb59158178a72f69" DESCRIPTION="A PAM module enabling special 'duress' passwords that will execute arbitrary scripts" HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress" SRC_URI="https://github.com/nuvious/${PN}/archive/${VER_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE="LGPL-3" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~amd64" IUSE="debug" DEPENDS="dev-libs/openssl sys-libs/pam" RDEPENDS="${DEPENDS}" S="${WORKDIR}/pam-duress-${VER_COMMIT}" src_prepare() { default sed -e "/^CC :=/s|:= .*|:= $(tc-getCC)|" -e "/^CFLAGS :=/s|-O2|${CFLAGS}|" \ -i Makefile || die } src_compile() { emake $(use debug && echo "debug") } src_install() { dobin bin/duress_sign dobin bin/pam_test dopammod bin/pam_duress.so einstalldocs }
  • Dead Man's Switch?
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 May 2022
    Using https://github.com/xmidt-org/dms & https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress to shred LUKS headers: https://www.buskill.in/luks-self-destruct/
  • self destroying luks?
    3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 8 May 2022
    maybe https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress
  • can you set up a locking manager so when you log in with specific username/password it doesnt let you in and just takes a photo?
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 7 May 2022
    This repo gives you one such tool. It triggers a script when a specific password is used, and can then hand over control to the usual unlocking process or not (as you asked for). The script is whatever you want: taking a pic, maybe transmit it over the internet, possibly including live video, audio and location, distress message, etc. The script can also erase the app, itself and the log entries, then unlocking as if nothing had happend. A downside is that, at least from the repo description and instructions, the Duress action triggers on specific user and password, not on anything but the correct combination. Still, you asked for specific user and password.
  • Use secondary login password to trigger selfdestruct
    2 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 21 Feb 2022
  • Is it possible to enter fake pin code to "unlock" phone/computer?
    1 project | /r/privacy | 24 Jan 2022
    So far, I've only come across one solution for Linux, called PAM Duress. It executes a script when you log in, so you'd probably need to add some actions that make the files unavailable. I haven't used it myself, as I'm a Windows user.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Wasted and pam-duress you can also consider the following projects:

Duress - Duress password trigger.

obs-studio-node - libOBS (OBS Studio) for Node.Js, Electron and similar tools

ActivityLauncher - Activity launcher creates shortcuts for any installed app and hidden activities to launch them with ease

pam_duress - A pam module written in C for duress codes in linux authentication

nighthawk-wallet-android - Old version of Nighthawk Android Wallet. No longer maintained.

WSL-Hello-sudo - Let's sudo by face recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs on both WSL 1 and WSL 2. This is a PAM module for Linux on WSL.

OpenDocument.droid - It's Android's first OpenOffice Document Reader!

tc-play - Free and simple TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Implementation based on dm-crypt

dolidroid - DoliDroid is the free Android frontend client, it is not a standalone program. It is a front end to use an online hosted Dolibarr ERP CRM https://www.dolibarr.org [Moved to: https://github.com/DoliCloud/DoliDroid]

packages

shattered-pixel-dungeon - Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler with randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use. It's based on the source code of Pixel Dungeon, by Watabou.

dms - A dead man's switch that executes one or more actions if not actively pinged via its HTTP endpoint