Schneier-based ideas work for me

Posted Nov 12, 2011 22:11 UTC (Sat) by mgedmin (guest, #34497)
In reply to: Schneier-based ideas work for me by philipstorry
Parent article: A Periodic Table of password managers

I also use pwsafe (it protects my LWN password!). Unfortunately it's recently been removed from Debian and Ubuntu as unmaintained.

My smartphone until very recently was the Nokia N900. There was a Schneiderian clone called PasswordSafe that worked rather well (the only two bugs were a missing icon and a non-functional export).

I've tried to import my pwsafe database into Revelation, which claims support for it, but the import failed silently.

I'm now looking for a solution that would support both Ubuntu and the Nokia N9, and, ideally support the same format.

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Schneier-based ideas work for me

Posted Nov 13, 2011 12:02 UTC (Sun) by philipstorry (subscriber, #45926) [Link]

Dang - I'm on Ubuntu LTS, so didn't know it had been removed. Thanks for letting me know.

I guess I have three options:
1. Learn C and maintain it myself (thus get it back into the distros)
2. Write my own "clone" in my own choice of language
3. Use something else

Luckily, having picked a format that's widely supported, three is at least an easy interim option until I can decide whether I want to do 1 or 2...

Good luck finding something to solve your problem.