[dev] application for secure storing passwords with horde

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Sun Mar 14 02:23:38 UTC 2010


Quoting andre pawlowski <sqall at h4des.org>:

> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Andre Pawlowski <sqall at h4des.org>:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I was sick of storing my passwords local in an encrypted file and
>>> have written a Horde application for this. The application is called
>>> Eleusis. The user can create a passwordstore with a masterpassword.
>>> With this masterpassword the passwordstore will be encrypted with
>>> blowfish. So any user can store their passwords online in a secure way.
>>>
>>> The application NEVER stores anything unencrypted on the hard disk
>>> drive of the server and so even forensic tools for recovering files
>>> will fail when you want to crack the passwordfile.
>>>
>>> The application uses php mycrypt for the encryption and works with
>>> horde 3 (any version).
>>>
>>> You can download the project on
>>> http://h4des.org/index.php?inhalt=eleusis
>>>
>>> Is the horde project interested in this application? Should I store
>>> it on the horde server?
>>
>> I personally use notes encryption in Mnemo for that purpose because I
>> can save arbitratry additional information there, not only password
>> pairs. But I can see some use and potential for that application.
>> Are you willing to further support this application with bug fixes,
>> updating to Horde 4, etc? Then we could host it as an official Horde
>> application on our servers.
>>
>> Jan.
>>
> Hi Jan,
>
> yes of course I am willing to support this application with bug fixes
> and updating to Horde 4. I use this application for myself and therefore
> I need bug fixes and the update to Horde 4 ;)

Great - how do you want to move forward? Do you want to submit an H4 version?

-chuck


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