Comments on: Ping!

By: Kalle

Kalle — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:32:19 +0000

Btw, funny that your thing claims CLI is “Common Language Interpreter”. It’s also Command Line Interface, and that’s an official acronym IIRC.

By: Kalle

Kalle — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:31:32 +0000

How cross-compatible is my CLI hack? Well, anything with an SSH client can access it, which is rather cross-compatible I’d say. But not very user friendly. I suppose I could work on it some more though. Perhaps people’d love a CLI server-side way of storing passes (on their own servers that is), though not all people have servers, exactly. I think I’ll stick with my current CLI solution though for now. But a standardized format for pass wallets would be great, I think. Since it’d naturally be intensely encrypted I could literally store my wallet online or email it to myself wherever I was and simply use it no matter which OS I was in. The concept of online password managers is retarded, though I hear there are such out there. Nothing I will ever use, I think, but you never know.

By: Erwin

Erwin — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:19:24 +0000

And how cross-compatible is that? The closest thing I can think of is Password Safe which was originally created by Bruce Schneier (or rather Counterpane, his company, I don’t know how much difference there was in practice). There is an OS X program that uses the same format called Password Gorilla but I was not impressed with the Tcl/tk interface it uses.

By: Kalle

Kalle — Sun, 14 May 2006 16:37:43 +0000

Man. I wish those things were cross-compatible. I luckily wrote a stupid CLI app that creates a loop device at 1 meg in which I put in plaintext my sensitive stuff (serpent-encrypted). If I hadn’t, I’d be sorta screwed at this point since GPass, which is where I store my passes usually, doesn’t exactly fly in Mac OS X, or Win32. I wish they’d make an OpenPasswordWalletFormat over at Oasis.