Safeguard

Blockchain-based, decentralised password manager

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Blockchain-based, decentralised password manager

3 followers

Safeguard is a decentralized password managerpmanager. 🔒Protect your passwords via decentralized Blockstack id. 🔑Store and autofill your passwords via chrome extension. 😇Generate secure passwords for each site. 📩 Get notified about security vulnerabilities.

Launch tags:Web App•Chrome Extensions•Productivity

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Safeguard

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Hey Product Hunt, I am the maker of Safeguard This is something I made recently. The problem? We often forget to make unique passwords for every site. Hence use the same for each one. But often this poses a security issue as some of these sites make leak your passwords. Hence using a password manager can solve this problem for you as it will generate unique passwords, and all you have to remember is one password. Your data is stored in blockstack, so the entire app is actually like a UI. And if a better UI ever comes along, then you can change to that. Data stored there is encrypted using your key. So login via blockstack. And you don't have to trust us. Normal password managers are stored in a centralized server. So if it goes down , all your passwords are gone or get hacked (which has happened numerous times https://password-managers.bestre...) Safeguard can act as storage for your passwords. 1. Store and autofill your passwords: Save all your passwords at one place and autofill them with ease using a browser extension. 2. Generate secure passwords: Keeping the same password for all websites is risky and then there is the task of remembering them. Safeguard generates new passwords every time based on your desired level of strength. 3. Decentralized and Secure: All the passwords are in block stack decentralised storage. https://blockstack.org/ The extension is now free and available on the chrome store.

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6yr ago

@gauthamzzz congratulations on the launch! this is awesome

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6yr ago

Safeguard

Maker

@fajarsiddiq Thanks fajar.

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6yr ago

Safeguard

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@owenfar1 Thanks for your suggestions , we will look into it.

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6yr ago

Dapp.com

@gauthamzzz Hey Gautham, would you like to share Safeguard on Dapp.com?

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6yr ago

Safeguard

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@jun_gong yeah sure.

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6yr ago

It's completely useless if not a scam if the code is not open source. What kinda idiot would use this?

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6yr ago

Safeguard

Maker

@fluidvoice we are working on some changes and will opensource soon. Most password managers are not OSS. The documentation is not ready. The extension code is anyway readable by anyone since chrome store allows anyone to do that.

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6yr ago

@gauthamzzz Maybe it's true for Windows? It's certainly not true for Linux. >> https://www.fossmint.com/linux-p... In any case, the whole point of PW managers is strict security. How can this be ensured with closed source? It's a rediculous notion and a question that should not need to be asked. Nobody serious about security would use a closed source PWM.

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6yr ago

Safeguard

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@fluidvoice most of these don't have code in GitHub. It's just that they support Linux. Yes we are considering open sourcing very soon .

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6yr ago

@gauthamzzz Look, I'm not gonna do all your homework for you but I just checked the one I have installed (KeepassXC) that comes in my Linux app manager and it is indeed on github >> https://github.com/keepassxreboo...

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6yr ago

@gauthamzzz That said. If you open source it, then I think the app will become very popular as an easy to use PWM with private key auth (Blockstack) is certainly something needed. Sorry to be a PITA, but password security must be taken seriously.

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6yr ago

What encryption is used to store the password? Where are the passwords stored? What happens when Blockstack disables my access / stops operating (they are the centralized authority)?

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6yr ago

Safeguard

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it’s ECIES with the secp256k1 curve, with a SHA256 HMAC and 256-bit AES-CBC symmetric key encryption. Encrypted passwords are stored in Gaia https://github.com/blockstack/gaia You can start your own server. Blockstack is not centralized. As lot of dapps do run own servers. Checkout more answers here at https://docs.blockstack.org/faqs...

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6yr ago

@gauthamzzz Where is the source code repo? (link to Github) This is all meaningless if we can't see the code and be able to compile/build it. No way I'd trust this. How do we know the passwords are stored *only* in Gaia encrypted vault? We don't. Show your code!

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6yr ago

BlockSurvey

This is a great idea. However, I would like to see a Firefox extension more than a Chrome. Privacy focused community uses Firefox and Brave. There is a "No To Chrome" movement already going on. https://notochrome.org/

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6yr ago

Safeguard

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@wilsonbright If you are using firefox use this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... and add it to your browser If you use Opera you can use this https://addons.opera.com/en/exte... and install on your browser. Right now I am a solo maker, hence now focusing on minimizing bugs and give a great User experience. When its done, will push into Firefox. Till then please try with this and share youre feedback. Hope you can understand.

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6yr ago

Relay

@wilsonbright @gauthamzzz supporting Firefox as well is relatively straightforward. This should get you most of the way there: https://github.com/mozilla/webex...

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6yr ago