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Add to SafariWhen comparing passacre vs Cockatoo, the Slant community recommends passacre for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform password manager?” passacre is ranked 13th while Cockatoo is ranked 42nd. The most important reason people chose passacre is:
The utility itself has no GUI, and is written in Python, so it’s portable and has few dependencies.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Lightweight
The utility itself has no GUI, and is written in Python, so it’s portable and has few dependencies.
Pro Requires little to no storage
Passacre needs only a configuration file to tell it how to hash passwords, what kind of output it should produce, and which sites need specific generation rules. There’s no database where passwords are stored, so it’s not possible to be locked out of everything if that file is lost.
Pro Simple password modifiers
Just two optional prefixes to adapt password to each site's complexity requirements
Pro Graphical input method as an option
Gestures allow to remember more with a way less effort
Pro Cross-platform solution
Available as an autonomous web-app + as an add-on for Chrome, Opera and Firefox (desktop and mobile)
Pro Free, open-source
Fully transparent code, which everybody can inspect thoroughly
Pro Industry-accepted hash function
It's based on the famous KDF "scrypt"
Pro No clouds, no vaults
All passwords can be cryptographically derived from a single secret gesture (or a master-password)
Cons
Con Requires knowledge of the command line
To use passacre, some knowledge of the command line as well as Python is required.
