SteelSafe is a small personal password manager for the terminal.
Written entirely in safe Rust, it uses a text user interface and stores secrets in a local SQLite database, making it suited to people who want an offline, portable credential store that can be copied between machines without relying on a service or sync backend.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses Argon2id for key derivation and XChaCha20-Poly1305 for authenticated encryption.
- Stores credentials in a local SQLite database for straightforward portability and backup.
- Lets you add entries, search by title or account metadata, and decrypt credentials for clipboard copying.
- Includes a keyboard-driven terminal user interface for everyday use.
- Forbids Rust unsafe code in the application codebase.
- Keeps configuration simple with a zero-config approach and very few security-sensitive options.
- Can generate strong random passwords when creating a new entry.
Website: h2co3.github.io/steelsafe/
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Developer: H2CO3
License: MIT License
SteelSafe is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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