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Cake day: April 28th, 2021

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  • @vala whoaa what!! Lemme see if I understand this right… It’s less of a password manager and more of a deterministic password generator? As in, it’ll always spit out the same resulting password given the correct input passphrase + domain of the site being logged into? So you just essentially generate it again instead of ever storing it.

    I’m so amazed and curious about this approach, what are the pros and cons? Obviously there’s still the risk of someone learning your passphrase, but there’s no hackable database of passwords. Do you get a different output from different variations of the same URL, like including a “/” at the end? What does saving the bookmark actually do, like pre-fill the URL field? Given that autofilling is supposed to be more secure than copy/pasting, is there some way to make this do that?

    Sorry for the barrage but I’m very tempted by this one, it’s neat!