cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42164102
Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.…
This is terrible advice, even if I assume you are also using a key-file on a removable usb. An attacker can brute force decrypt your db. There is no rate limiting when you literally have the database file, they could replicate it across thousands of servers each with dozens of cores, each core trying a dozen keyphrases per second. That’s assuming a motivated attacker like a government or crypto scammers, but why open yourself to that possibility?