Proposed by: Tanay V. PrabhuDesai
Using KeePassXC and Syncthing for Password Management
KeePassXC and Syncthing are the two tools that I use as a daily driver for my Password management across platforms (Arch Linux, Mac, Windows, Android)
- Why do we need Password Managers? (2 minutes)
Discuss the need and the different alternatives for Password Managers.
- Existing password managers which are popular (2 minutes)
We will discuss different password managers (proprietary) and what are the features that they provide.
- Problems with proprietary password managers (3 minutes)
There are a lot of problems with proprietary password managers and some of them even have has security holes.
- Intro to KeePassXC as a password manager (1 minutes)
- Features that KeePassXC provides (2 minutes)
What KeePassXC has and what it lacks compared to the existing proprietary alternatives.
- Improving security with a good password and a hardware key (3 minutes)
Show the audience what is a good password and what a hardware key is and how to add to make your database strongly encrypted.
- Using Syncthing to synchronise across all the devices (2 minutes)
Another tool called Syncthing to synchronise your encrypted databases across multiple devices (laptops/tablets/phones)
- Live demo (5 minutes)
Source code/Reference: https://keepassxc.org/ and https://syncthing.net/
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