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Passwordstore

Passwordstore: a product linked in Hacker News recommendation discussions.

Privacy & security
11Recommendation signals
11Sources
2026-07-23Latest mention

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@floathub
I've been using pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/) for years on multiple desktops, and have recently added iOS app sepass to my setup (https://sepass.modiot.com/ https://sepass.modiot.com/).
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@palata
I use https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ with a hardware key on multiple OSes (including Linux, Android and macOS).
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@ocodo
as a cross platform alternative, I use pass (https://www.passwordstore.org https://www.passwordstore.org) export OPEN_API_KEY=$(pass show open_api_key)
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@xolox
I've been using pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/) for quite a few years now and it allows to use multiple GPG keys to encrypt secrets in different subfolders.
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@jstanley
I use https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ - it encrypts your passwords with GPG, and shares the storage via a Git repository for synchronisation between different machines.
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@palata
I use pass https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/, which encrypts my passwords with my GPG key, which comes from my Yubikey, which I unlock with a password.
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@palata
I love https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/
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@5-
i use pass https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ git sync'd (encrypted) to a $5/month vps that also runs many other things.
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@hippari
I use the simple https://www.passwordstore.org https://www.passwordstore.org.
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@mehdix
I use [pass](https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/) which is an open source command line password manager.
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@xrisk
I use https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ to generate passwords which are then encrypted using my GPG keys.
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