When comparing passacre vs eWallet, the Slant community recommends passacre for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform password manager?” passacre is ranked 13th while eWallet is ranked 26th. 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
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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 Reliable and can easily sync with clients on phone/tablet and PC
Pro Cloud sync
It can sync the passwords between all used devices via DropBox.
Pro Multi platform
Runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.
Pro Local password storage
It can store the password safe on the local computer (not in the cloud).
Pro Can sync between platforms without using Cloud
Syncing from laptop/desktop to phone and tablet (without using the cloud features).
Cons
Con Requires knowledge of the command line
To use passacre, some knowledge of the command line as well as Python is required.
Con Closed source
Due to it is closed source and the encryption implementation is not documented you have to trust the developer.
Con No Linux version
