minisign
gopass
minisign | gopass | |
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12 | 37 | |
1,967 | 5,654 | |
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4.8 | 9.2 | |
about 1 month ago | 19 days ago | |
C | Go | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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minisign
- Ask HN: What are your favorite tiny, single purpose tools?
- Minisign A dead simple tool to sign files and verify signatures
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PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless
There are alternatives, minisign and signify.
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Can a program be the only thing able to have access to a private key?
You don't have to attach identities to public and private keys. If all you need it for is signing, then check out minisign.
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How should I encrypt files for sharing over the internet?
If you need signatures, minisign is a similar hard-to-misuse program.
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Beginner: how to do basic cryptography for a blog
In your case, use a tool such as https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/ to do signing/verification. GPG is another choice which is very common. It will produce a "signature" which can be embedded alongside your posts verifying that the text of the post was endorsed by someone bearing the given public key.
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Is it worth it to make the move to ProtonMail & VPN?
Claiming it's not ancient because Linux desktop distributions still use it for signing packages is a very odd argument. Most Cryptography experts (note: I'm not talking about programmers, IT professionals or people who know a thing or two about cryptography, I mean actual cryptographers) would agree that we should start using something like signify or minisign instead of the bloated mess that is GPG for signing package repositories.
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Hacker News top posts: Dec 23, 2021
minisign\ (5 comments)
- minisign
- Show HN: Pagesign – A Python Wrapper for Age and Minisign
gopass
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Milyen jelszót használj, hogy a te fiókodat ne törjék fel?
én gopassolok, de same-same
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Fired for leaked credentials. How do I explain this?
use a password manager, seriously. I know my setup is overkill, but I've been rocking the yubikey/gopass combo for like 3-4 years now.
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How do you protect your secret keys in your local computer?
Depend on the kind of keys or secrets in general, and the infrastructure you work with. As bare minimum KeePassX/KeePassXC works as personal keys vault (that have a master password), GoPass (+git) as team passwords repository that use GPG keys as encryption, and passphrase for SSH keys. And, of course, trying to be mindful in what I run in my local computer.
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GitHub makes 2FA mandatory next week for active developers
Thank you for the details, and pointer to a solution. I've just installed gopass.
I also (in looking through other threads) found https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass and by reading the code learned how TOTP works.
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What is your go-to password manager for Linux, and why did you choose that one?
I use gopass, because it is pass compliant and supports multiple recipients / teams which was my initial usecase for it. Just ask if you have any questions about my usage of it!
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Yubikey/gpg password encryption
I'm currently using passwordstore/gopass for password management. It uses my GPG key to encrypt the passwords. The GPG key lives only only my Yubikey. The Yubikey requires a touch for each decryption.
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Pa – a simple password manager based on age
That's true, the simple & fast UI (TUI/GUI) helps a lot. However, I would not extrapolate it to a huge problem. I am person, who have written own pass/passage implementation [0], just because I disliked how many steps I need to make to select the password for the form input, modify it or sync secrets.
Initially, I had used the `gopass`. It is probably the most convenient way to start using the password-store. It is cross-platform, 100% compatible with pass & pass-otp. To copy the password, you basically type the part of the file you are looking for. If you type "gopass show github", it will display a TUI, where you can select the file you are looking for (let's say you have two files "personal/github.com.gpg" and "work/github.com.gpg"). Unfortunately, the search function was far from perfect, and it had a problem with typos like "gtihbu" at the time, when I was using it.
To get rid of this issue, I decided to adapt pass/gopass to use `fzf` [2]. In the same time, my .password-store/ dir was rapidly growing that made me think about implementing pass from scratch. I improved the implementation to have better caching, synchronization between machines/mobile, but more importantly - a simple `secret [arg]` command that will execute `fzf` to list all known creds and simplify selection of the password. Of course, it accepted an argument that was limiting the results, which is great when you need to get back to the previous credential to retype something.
The introduction of `fzf` made it really convenient, and I decided to add more commands with fuzzy search, such as:
- `otp` - limits results files containing TOTP/HOTP token, calculates and copies it to the clipboard.
- `secret-edit`, `secret-remove`, `secret-show`... aliases to sub-commands that open `fzf` command in multi-selection mode, so by utilizing space key I could select what files are meant to be modified, removed, displayed etc. Quite handy for mass-edit.
- `secret-qr` - similar to the gopass' feature, but it made a simplified way to create and display QR codes dedicated to share contacts, WiFI SSID+password combination (etc.) to someone who was asking for creds from me.
Awesome, but alt-tabbing got me annoyed after a few years of using. I started pursuing for more sophisticated interface. I decided to give `rofi` [3] a try. I managed to fork that repo and also adapt to my convention of using password-store, but I left i3 for a macOS.
Currently, I have started working on a browser extension that takes care of suggesting password-store creds (based on the path, input parameters, location on the website etc.) similarly to what uBlock Origin does. That configuration is passed to my pass implementation, so on the github.com, my browser have only "work" and "personal" auto-suggestion, when I am focusing the text input.
I plan to create a similar app to Shortcat [4], but it will preserve the information what password has been asked for the focused app. I think, with VoiceOver assistance, it is more than possible to mitigate the need for alt-tabbing to the terminal for electron/native apps.
[0]: It is a private repository, maybe when it will be polished enough I will open-source it.
[1]: https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
[2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
[3]: https://github.com/alecdwm/pass-rofi-gui
[4]: https://shortcat.app/
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Favorite Password Manager?
gopass is what I've used for a long time. I like how it interfaces with the yubikey/gpg and how password stores can be held in a git repo. There are browser interfaces and GUIs for it but I tend to use it from the command line most of the time.
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What’s your password manager of choice?
gopass :)
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Tool / workflow recommendations for the terminal
I wrote my own secret manager: safe. It stores your secrets as encrypted files on your disk (like pass and gopass), and is accessible from the command line. It differs from them in that you only need a master password to use it (so no GPG keys to manage). It comes with an agent (like ssh-agent) that can store your encryption key in memory to avoid typing your master password over and over.
What are some alternatives?
signify - OpenBSD tool to sign and verify signatures on files. Portable version.
pass-otp - A pass extension for managing one-time-password (OTP) tokens
age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age
pass-import - A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers
ed25519 - Minimal ed25519 Haskell package, binding to the ref10 SUPERCOP implementation.
pinentry-touchid - Custom GPG pinentry program for macOS that allows using Touch ID for fetching the password from the macOS keychain.
kyber
pass-tomb - A pass extension that helps you keep the whole tree of passwords encrypted inside a Tomb.
mkp224o - vanity address generator for tor onion v3 (ed25519) hidden services