Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 07:51, Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:

> Incidentally, I see a lot of effort so far discussing how evil
> helm-lastpass and lastpass are, and how to get them moved to obscure
> parts of the internet. What I don't see is efforts discussing free
> alternatives.

+1!

> As far as I know the only free competitor for lastpass is bitwarden,
> why is nobody talking about developing an emacs interface to bitwarden
> and educating lastpass users about it?

Have another one: https://www.passwordstore.org/

It is a convention for storing each password in a separate encrypted
text file and a shell script wrapper around GPG and optionally Git
implementing that convention.

The store directory just happens to be easily browsable in Emacs
without any additional interface packages — as you visit an encrypted
file, Emacs asks for the decryption key passphrase and displays a
buffer with decrypted password and any additional metadata associated
with it. (I did not check what happens if you modify and save that
buffer; whether it gets encrypted with all the keys it was originally
encrypted with.)

And it comes with a script that imports passwords from LastPass format.


(I now looked at Bitwarden and it looks like its server component,
while itself being Free, requires Microsoft SQL Server which is
free-to-use but not Free; and without the server component the user is
locked into using someone else’s server instance. So, ideologically,
Bitwarden is not much better than LastPass.)