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Blogs on Spectre: Passwords, Privacy-first
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Blogs on Spectre: Passwords, Privacy-first is the company blog at spectre.app, writing about security and productivity. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Spectre: Goodbye Password Managers”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link spectre.app as a password generator that derives site passwords from a master password and a site name without storing them. Commenters often offer it as an alternative to password managers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Password manager and secure identity platform. Spectre is a free and offline password cipher. Privacy-first. Coming to web, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux.
Most-linked posts?
- Spectre: Goodbye Password Managers8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-04-27
What Hacker News says?
I have three options for you, along with my two cents on each: 1) *Bitwarden:* I am no longer using Bitwarden since they can delete your account at any time for any reason[5]. 2) *KeePassXC:* For KeePassXC, you need to store your "Passwords.kdbx" (~16 kB) database file somewhere and remember a master password. 3) *Spectre ( https://spectre.app/)\\\ * I haven't tried it yet; however, Spectre calculates your password…
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on “Ask HN: How'd you manage the password managers' master password?”Submitted Spectre: Goodbye Password Managers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSpectre does that, is OSS and multiplatform: https://spectre.app/ i.e. it generates password given your name, a master password, and the website hostname (or whatever). Quite handy.
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on “Write your passwords down (2010)”Submitted From Master Password to Spectre (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis project seems very similar to another. I’ve discovered years ago. https://spectre.app/ The original project was master password.app Domain: masterpassword.app Registered On: 2018-05-17
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on “HIPPO Turns One Master Password into Many Without Storing Any”Submitted Spectre: Reclaim ownership, delete your passwords as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is beautifully done, great design work. Scrypt for password stretching seems good. I see you're using CPU cost of 2^15. When storing a password hash you'd want to use 2^17 (with agility to change algorithm or increase cost in the future) [1]. Since you're not storing the result, I suspect the lower number is reasonable. I don't like simple concatenation when building a salt from two variable length fields. You'…
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on “Show HN: Pashword – Hashed Password Calculator”This project seems very similar to another. I’ve discovered years ago. https://spectre.app/ The original project was master password.app Domain: masterpassword.app Registered On: 2018-05-17
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on “HIPPO Turns One Master Password Into Many Without Storing Any”That makes your email box effectively a password vault. Might as well use a service designed for that such as LastPass, or 1Password. Or better still, use a password calculator app such as https://spectre.app/ This kind of approach generates your passwords for different sites based on login information and a single password only you know. No other passwords are stored on any devices or services, not even within the…
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on “Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password”Look at https://spectre.app/
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on “Ask HN: LastPass Alternatives”Do this instead https://spectre.app/
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on “Cryptopathic: The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on”