Rooster is a simple password manager for geeks.
This is a command-line program.
Rooster is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Protects your passwords with state-of-the-art cryptography algorithms:
- scrypt for key derivation (n = 2^12, r = 8, p = 1 by default, customizable)
- aes-256-cbc for encryption.
- hmac-sha512 for authentication.
- Easy to maintain so that it never becomes unmaintained.
- Works completely offline by saving your password in a single local file.
- Stores username/password combinations, nothing more, nothing less.
- Retrieve passwords with the get command.
- Dump all raw password data in JSON.
- Import – load all raw password data from a JSON file.
- List apps that have weak passwords.
- Fuzzy searches.
Website: github.com/conradkleinespel/rooster
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Developer: Conrad Kleinespel
License: Apache License 2.0
Rooster is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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