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Show HN: Pashword – Hashed Password Calculator
This is beautifully done, great design work.
Scrypt for password stretching seems good. I see you're using CPU cost of 2^15. When storing a password hash you'd want to use 2^17 (with agility to change algorithm or increase cost in the future) [1]. Since you're not storing the result, I suspect the lower number is reasonable.
I don't like simple concatenation when building a salt from two variable length fields. You'll get the same salt for `"foo" + "bar"` and `"foob" + "ar"`, but the salt should be unique. Although I don't think that's an issue for this project since the first is a website.
Using the website in the salt has some issues when there are multiple domains that use the same password. Do I use mail.google.com, auth.google.com, or google.com? trello.com or atlassian.net? What if the website it bought and the new owner changes the domain name? With a password manager, I can just look in my vault to figure out the old domain name.
Phishing is a major way passwords are stolen and this project doesn't seem to do anything to protect against that. A browser extension (and mobile app), that checks the domain name before showing/filling the password could help.
The secret key field let me use `1234` as the key, although the color of the field was red. I think this should either prevent obviously weak passphrases or show a much more obvious warning if when one is used. Using a password found in a breach is also a bad idea (even it the password looks strong). You don't have a way to check HIBP, so users will be vulnerable if they make that mistake. It's too easy to make a critical mistake with the current design.
A bug: I filled out the form but forgot to enable JavaScript. The form posted my passphrase back to the server (https://pashword.app/?website=google.com&username=me&passphr...). I'd recommend changing the form so the submit button doesn't do anything when JS isn't loaded, otherwise the server will learn users passphrases. This is also a good place to remember that the user fully trusts that you wont steal their info (I'm not sure why anyone should trust that).
Also check out other similar projects, lots of discussion which likely applies here as well. I believe one of these supports uses a counter to support password rotation. You'd just need to remember the counter value for each site.
* LessPass - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12889807
- Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?
- Hard reset every day
- Design-first open source softwares, is that a thing/possible?
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Why Tailwindcss over styled-components?
Just take a look here: https://github.com/pashword/pashword/blob/main/pages/index.tsx
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Good dark + gradients design systems?
I'm looking for something close to https://pashword.app
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My epic account just got hacked, I just lost over 500 dollars worth of games and accounts.
Password managers can be a bit hard to manage, people don't even bother using them. There's https://pashword.app that solves this but not many people know about it.
- Pashword - A password generator that generates passwords you don't have to remember and cannot ever forget
- Pashword – A Hashed Password Generator
hackerer-news
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Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?
Over the years, I've written many apps and utilities for myself or others (that didn't end up get used). These are the interesting ones I remember. Many not quite complete/usable. Other than hackerer.news none of them are 'up' and running. Some have and others haven't been published as opensource.
- https://hackerer.news HN viewer (source[0]): I use daily so I can see today's top stories in reverse chronological order with mainstream topics sorted to the bottom.
- qwickly[1] keyboard layout: I use all the time as an easier to learn and more comfortable to type than Colemak/Tarmak
- safeql[2]: Java type-safe SQL expression composer that reduces constant expressions and eliminates N+1 queries loading associations by always operating on set relation or array of models.
- moja[3]: Composable computation pipelines for Java: Async, Lazy, Option, Try, Result, Multi (List), Stated, Reader, Logger, Writer.
- gitgrep.com[4] Opensource SaaS version of etsy/houndd (now called hound-search).
- statuspages.me: Status page aggregator with dynamic javascript for scraping each source using selector expressions.
- movies to watch aggregator: with links to sources to watch. It was hard then to get 3rd party deep links into streaming sites so included some torrent links. Got a DMCA phone call, so took it down. Combined thumbnails, summaries, actors(?), imdb ratings, links.
- java2cpp: Translate a moderately sized java app with test suite to c++, not 100% required final manual fixups.
- swift2java (or maybe it was java2swift, it's fuzzy now): translate Swift to Java obviously, using ANTLR4. Not 100% required final manual fixups.
- gui2log: to make an ASCII rendition of on-screen GUI widgets into an application log file when form submitted, so users couldn't complain that they saw X, but got Y.
- some basic stats/ML algorithms: k-nearest neighbour, RNN back-propagation, etc?
- Java in-memory DB: Small SQL-like memory tables with indexing/searching.
- wwwsqldesigner: This exists as opensource and I extended it to infer foreign key relationships based on naming conventions used in a MySQL schema. It was great for zooming around a large ERD.
- tracelog: combination of microservices parent/child span logging and generated high level events shown as a sequence diagram. Integrated with Loggly for full/verbose logs of selected high-level events.
- pcl2bmp downscaler: Reduce high resolution HP LaserJet (PCL5) printed to file to lower resolution bitmap pages for screen display (before retina DPI was common). It aimed to shrink same-color areas and preserve black/white transitions while reducing.
[0] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
[1] https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly
[2] https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql
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Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?
https://hackerer.news viewer that shows stories by day so I don't see yesterday's stories today interleaved with today's and avoid the slot machine dopamine hits.
- Suggest to HN: Categories
What are some alternatives?
zxcvbn - Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation
json-formatter-live - json formatter live / Keyboard first, privacy-friendly, installable JSON formatter
gitgrep - Lightning fast code searching made easy
rgca - Experiment in SSL CA management.
pwgen-for-bios - Password generator for BIOS
openship - multi-channel fulfillment at scale
dasdashboard - local dashboard with focus on easy editing
Qwickly - An easy to learn keyboard layout that's fast and comfortable to type.
hn-index - Search Hacker News stories by title with regex CLI
hckrweb - Hcker News mobile web app
upscayl - 🆙 Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.