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What happens when a password manager's servers go down
Your vault being encrypted and your vault being reachable are two different promises. A short login incident this week is a clean way to see why, and what to check about the tool you use
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What “zero-knowledge encryption” actually promises
Zero-knowledge encryption is a promise about one opponent: the company holding your vault. Four cryptographers spent a year testing whether four password managers were keeping it.
Keep reading →The Vauz signing key: check your download is genuine
Every Vauz release is signed with the same minisign key. Here it is, with the three commands that check a download — and why one copy of a key proves nothing.
Keep reading →Clickjacking steals passwords. Here's how Vauz stops it.
Researchers showed that one invisible click can drain a password manager's autofill. Vauz 1.4.2 answers with an approval prompt the page cannot draw over — Touch ID, or your V-Key.
Keep reading →Privacy shouldn't be a setting
Privacy already feels boring because everyone ignores it. It should feel boring because it is on by default, not buried in a settings menu.
Keep reading →A password manager by Sealzi
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