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Cake day: April 12th, 2026

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  • Skimming through most answers I’d like to add my own solution for password management. This will likely take you a bit of time the first time, but after that I think it’s trivial to manage (or migrate to a solution provided by others)

    Basically I have a master password tied to an identity file (or KEY), and use this key to encrypt and my passwords to keep on local drive (1 file 1 password). This leverages age, an encryption program and protocol by FiloSottile, so that every password uses post-quantum encryption (if you care for that), and can be stored on-device or on cloud without worrying for data leaks.

    To give some details:

    • i made a KEY identity file using a passphrase (which is thus my master password)
    • then I simply wrote my username and passwords into txt files, each named after the service which covers (i.e. amazon.txt has my amazon username and password)
    • as third step I encrypt each file using the KEY, so that to view the content I need both the KEY file and the passphrase
    • last, i copied each encrypted file on a cloud service, for backups, and moved the key file to a usb

    Therefore to decrypt a file (to see my logins) I plug in the usb (acting as a yubikey of sort, but I’m poor), via the age cli I insert the passphrase and voilà… This seems bothersome at first, but I can securely manage password and ifnI were ever to switch to bitwarden or something else, I just need to batch decrypt my pass files (a for loop does the job, pastinf the same passphrase each time)