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Hashpass

A simple, stateless password manager for Chrome

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Stephan Boyer
@stephantasia · Engineer, Airbnb
Great feedback, thanks! The term "password" is definitely confusing because it could refer to what you type in the popup, or the generated password. I tried to consistently use "key" to refer to what you enter, and "hash" to refer to the generated password. You bring up a great point that these are not terms that would make sense to laypeople. To some extent… See more

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Stephan Boyer
@stephantasia · Engineer, Airbnb
I made Hashpass because it's hard to memorize lots of passwords, and I don't like the idea of storing passwords in a proprietary database format + relying on a third-party tool to open it. Unusual for a password manager, Hashpass never writes anything to disk. Instead, it uses a simple formula to deterministically generate passwords, so there is nothing to s… See more
Edouard PETIT
@edouardpetit · CMO @Bunkr
It's a Dashlane like? (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...)
Alexis Fogel
@alexisfogel · Co-founder, Head of Product at Dashlane
I like the concept, but I am afraid that because of all the security breaches, you would end up with too many keys overtime.
Robin Good
@robingood · Publisher of T5 tools.robingood.com
Hi Stephan, thanks for creating HashPass. I think there is good value in having a tool like this. About 6 months ago I have discovered http://my1.pw/ which seems based on the same approach and if you could improve on its shortcomings I think you would have done something valuable for everyone out there. My only humble complaint is with its usability. For no… See more
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Stephan Boyer
@stephantasia · Engineer, Airbnb
Great feedback, thanks! The term "password" is definitely confusing because it could refer to what you type in the popup, or the generated password. I tried to consistently use "key" to refer to what you enter, and "hash" to refer to the generated password. You bring up a great point that these are not terms that would make sense to laypeople. To some extent… See more