Comments on: A thousand passwords

By: Michaël

Michaël — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:25:42 +0000

Does this integrate with the browser? For example, if I am using Firefox to check gmail.com, do I need Firefox to remember the password for me, will Firefox pull the password out of revelation, or am I supposed to go to revelation and look up the password, and then go back to Firefox and enter the password manually? I guess I am wondering whether this is just a secure vault for passwords, or whether it is more than that. Thanks!

By: DaveB

DaveB — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:25:58 +0000

Personally I like the KDE PwManager better because it allows for notes in addition to the things that Revelation has. I like to use the notes to keep a password history for various accounts.

If Revelation adds that, it’ll be buh-bye PwManager.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:52:20 +0000

I have been using revelation for >5 years now. It’s a must-have.

My only complaint is that it is abandonware (hey, latest release in 2006!). Bugs don’t get fixed.

Someone should pick up that project, but IANAD.

By: Mahmoud

Mahmoud — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:10:38 +0000

null: I recommend KeepassX, simply because it’s cross-platform, which means that if I stick my password database file on a usb key, I can access it from any computer which I can install software on. I’m required to use Windows at work, so this is a big bonus. Just don’t use KeePass 2.x series on the Windows platform – that broke the database compatibility, but the 1.x series is still being developed on Windows.

I am using KeePass 2.x with mono under Ubuntu without problems.

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:31:05 +0000

Sharms,

if you take over development or fork the project make sure you make a public broadcast so other disttribution packagers are aware. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done on revelation…including import/export filter bug fixes… and moving to the newer gvfs bindings from the older gnomevfs bindings. Not to mention whatever needs to be done to get it in shape for gnome 3.0.

-jef

By: Scaine

Scaine — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:38:09 +0000

I recommend KeepassX, simply because it’s cross-platform, which means that if I stick my password database file on a usb key, I can access it from any computer which I can install software on.

I’m required to use Windows at work, so this is a big bonus. Just don’t use KeePass 2.x series on the Windows platform – that broke the database compatibility, but the 1.x series is still being developed on Windows.

By: notimportant

notimportant — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:31:44 +0000

I’d love a gnome-keyring integration

By: Kurt von Finck

Kurt von Finck — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:16:55 +0000

A plain text file encrypted with my GPG key works for me. *shrug*

By: RainCT

RainCT — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:46:51 +0000

Nice, I can see how it can be useful, but so far I’m happy enough with Firefox remembering my website passwords and Mozilla Weave to sync them between my two laptops.

Does Revelation have some sort of integration with web browsers so that you don’t need to look them up? Also, I’m wondering what it’s relation towards Seahorse is.

By: Julian Aloofi

Julian Aloofi — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:07:30 +0000

I’ve been using Revelation for months now as well. 100% recommendable, I generate 15 digit passwords for every website I don’t visit that often.

I’m not sure whether OpenID would really solve the problem. I currently have, let me count…, three OpenID provider. All of these required me to sign up for their services, and now I have three OpenID’s I use for different things. How have things improved? I still have to remember different passwords.