passman

Password manager with minimal code. Why? Because others have too much code for me to trust them.

Goals

1. Provide a fairly easy to use safe password manager.
   • Storage has to be encrypted with algorithm that takes forever to decrypt brute force.
   • Storage should be easily relocatable.
   • Should be easy to add/delete/get authorization information.
   • Authorization information will go on clip board.
   • Check for known clip board managers and give warnings.
2. Minimize time between getting source and being comfortable that this is only a password manager.
   • All code is in one file. File structure should be easy to follow.
   • Comments are minimized, code must be clear enough as is without comments.
   • Minimum set of dependencies (including .NET assemblies).
   • Simple build scripts.
   • Little error checking, if things fail, rely on exceptions.

Things that will not be done

• Delivery of binaries.
• Installation.

Build requirements

Pick one of below:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
  1. Install Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Full Profile
  2. Run build_microsoft.bat
• Mono 2.8 on Windows
  1. Install Mono 2.8 or higher.
  2. Run build_mono_windows.bat
• Linux
  1. Install Mono 2.8 or higher.
  2. Run ./build_mono_linux.sh

In each case the binary created is cross-platform compatible.

Runtime requirements

• Windows, one of:
  1. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
  2. Mono 2.8 or higher
• Linux, all:
  1. Mono 2.8 or higher
  2. xclip

Configure

1. Configure your own custom salt in passman.exe.config
   • This will be unique for you, does not have to be secret, just unique. At least 8 characters in length.
   • If you lose it, you will not be able to decrypt the data.
2. If you use a clipboard manager, add it to CheckApplications() method.

Other

• License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
• Project Home: https://github.com/earlNameless/passman