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masterpassword for Firefox
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[news] Masterpassword deprecated in favor of spectre #66

Closed promeneur closed 3 years ago

promeneur commented 3 years ago

Hello

Yesterday I discovered that masterpassword is deprecated in favor of Spectre, but Spectre as a new solution is not ready. See spectre.app site.

There is no more update of the different versions of masterpassord.

It seems there is a new api.

Today there is only a package for IOS. See https://chat.spectre.app/d/80-wip-for-linux-desktop-android/2 There is no

ttyridal commented 3 years ago

Hi Thanks for the heads up!

Yes I've seen it. At the moment it seems like it's just a rename for 'branding' and trying to chase a 'freemium' model. The file format looks to be the same still (and still called 'mpsites') and the algorithm is the same.

Basically it depends a bit on where Maarten wants to take it. He could let Spectre be "just another implementation" or he could take it in some other direction. I guess we would just have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, the browser extension, the various app implementations etc remains compatible for the time being.

ttyridal commented 3 years ago

Oh, and "Deprecated" is a strong word here. The algorithm remains open and free and there is a large ecosystem of implementations now. It's only the original implementation that is changing name.