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A good open source password manager? Inconceivable! (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Integrate Into the Operating System

The integration into the operating system was just not there and that's not one passwords fault it was really apples fault in the case of iOS. We use 250,000 maybe 300,000 rounds of key derivation iterations before we actually use the resulting key to encrypt the archive. That's basically to prevent ultra-fast brute force attacks so these are all pretty standard techniques but what they result in is a industry standard if not better encryption technique to store store names and passwords.

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