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If you're happy with the command line, using something like pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/) is worth serious consideration rather than rolling your own. It is GPLv2 and has a number of benefits, including the fact that your passwords are stored encrypted in a git repo and if you do "pass edit" it will call out to $EDITOR to do your edits, putting encryption/decryption and git transparently on both sides.


Unless you're a cryptographer, don't even think about rolling your own crypto (I'm not one, I did, and I'm ashamed of myself).


The context here was rolling your own password manager, not cryptography.




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