OpenKeychain VS passphrase2pgp

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/238257723 https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/pull/2804

In addition to my PC set up I am also using the Android Password Store in combination with OpenKeyChain. Everything works fine except that decrypting any password simply works without requiring my PIN. I've tried both USB C connection and NFC and neither interface requires the PIN.

OpenKeychain is an Android app for doing some basic GPG related work. It can verify signatures (hidden in the "encrypt/decrypt" menu)

Also it integrates i.e. with K-9 mail to sign and verify.

https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain

OpenKeychain https://www.openkeychain.org/ integrates with multiple apps for encrypting your mail, plain texts, backups, xmpp chats.

I don't know what features you are looking for in encryption software but OpenKeychain is foss, audited and works just fine if you just want basic encryption/decryption/signing.

OpenKeychain: Easy PGP (version 5.8.0): Encrypt your Files and Communications. Compatible with the OpenPGP Standard.

I use mailbox.org with the encrypted inbox, Mozilla Thunderbird on desktop, and FairEmail + OpenKeychain on Android. I think StartMail is the only other one of those four options that supports standard IMAP and SMTP.

On Android OpenKeychain, TermBot, and K-9 Mail, are awesome.

I would try openpgp, you can use https://www.gpg4win.org/ on windows and https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain (not actively developed, if someone knows a good alternative please comment) for android.

As far as I'm aware, Mnemonikey is the first of its kind, rhyming only with the related but conceptually different passphrase2pgp tool, from which I drew my original inspiration.

I think people should seriously consider using something like passphrase2pgp [0] in addition to a hardware key like this. That way you can have a brain key (hopefully generated with diceware or equivalent) to tie together day-to-day keys like this to a more permanent identity. I'm honestly surprised that strategy is not more widespread.

[0] https://github.com/skeeto/passphrase2pgp

Check out Chris Wellons' tool passphrase2pgp - it does exactly what you're describing by hashing an arbitrary input passphrase with Argon2.

So the easiest way to synchronize gpg keys I found is https://github.com/skeeto/passphrase2pgp - it generates a deterministic gpg key (also ssh keys, x509 certificates...) from a passphrase. Excellent tool

One way to circumvent this is to use a strong passphrase to deterministically generate the PGP/SSH key [1] to unlock other passwords. The SSH key could grant access to a remote server with backups and the PGP key could decrypt passwords using pass [2].

1. https://github.com/skeeto/passphrase2pgp

2. https://www.passwordstore.org/

I know there are tools that can generate GPG from arbitrary inputs, but what I'm really looking for is something with direct compatibility with BIP 39 or (BIP 44) phrases in particular.

What if https://github.com/skeeto/passphrase2pgp is not obviously the software to use, or doesn't exist at some later point?

My own tool, passphrase2pgp works this way. It generates both OpenPGP and SSH Ed25519 keys from a user-chosen passphrase, and it's designed to send the key straight into the ssh-agent on demand.

Derive my keypair entirely from a passphrase, with generous key stretching. I never need to worry about backing up my keys. I later extended this idea to OpenPGP and SSH, where I also exclusively use passphrase-derived keys: passphrase2pgp.

passphrase2pgp: for storing my PGP and SSH keys in my brain. Neither ever reside in permanent storage.