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You don’t want anything that advertises next generation encryption. You want tried and true encryption. You want boring encryption.
But post-quantum…
Then you want them to advertise NIST PQ standards
… Which is also not necessary for single user password databases anyway
Yes it is necessary just as my homelab needs to have enterprise hardware and be georedundant. Statements like yours make my very reasonable self hosting purchases hard to financially justify.
The standards are royalty free, so I’m not sure what that has to do with anything
(it’s a joke)
Bad joke
I mean, I thought it was funny.
For a personal database that’s unlikely to leave your hardware, sure. For SSH keys or something else that needs to be accessible publicly, post quantum or other “next generation” encryption may be reasonable.
If you’re sharing KeePass with others, maybe post quantum encryption is something to look for to get a bit of protection going forward.
PSA: The amount of stars on GitHub can be botted and is not a good indicator to know if you are dealing with a legitimate repository. Even the commit history can be faked (although that’s less common).
How to go about it then?
Try to do some research like you would do with closed source tools. See if they have a website and if it links to the GitHub you encountered. Also see if there are subreddits or forums and see what they link to.
In the case of this “Pro” version of KeePass; a simple search would have shown that there is no Pro version.
hey guys, AI really is good for something! it helps scammers a ton!
This is depressing. And what’s worse is that the best way to combat this is probably also AI. We’ll just scam ourselves out of resources by wasting it all on scams and battling scams. What a fitting way to go would that be.
This is why I never feel safe downloading a program from Github. I need a recognisable domain name website that google or duckduckgo has picked as the product.
No it’s not perfect, but it feels safer than a random github.
I need a recognisable domain name website that google or duckduckgo has picked as the product.
This doesn’t always work. For example, I used to (and still do) see a lot of fake websites when I l type revanced (https://revanced.app/) on duckduckgo, and I’ve nearly fallen for two of the fake ones before (I think two of .com / .org / .to…?)
Thankfully ublock origin warns users of this:
Otherwise, I’d have 100% downloaded some malware-loaded crap.
Just tried a search for Magisk and uBlock indeed does a great job at blocking all the scam websites.
It’s important to note that new scam sites won’t be picked up until someone reports them, so there’s still a chance you’ll be one of the first to a new domain.
I need to install Magisk.
Google:
1st result: their Github page
2: magisk-manager.fr.uptodownDOTcom/android
3: magiskmanagerDOTcom/
4: magisk-manager.fr.softonicDOTcom/androidKagi:
1st result: their Github page
2: magiskDOTme/ (icon showing it may be scam)
3: magiskmanagerDOTcom/ (scam icon)
4: themagiskDOTcom/ (scam icon)No way I’m clicking on anything but the Github page.
Kagi is somewhat better than Google, but you have to pay attention to the small warning icon.
I would say bot search engines do a bad job and shouldn’t show those results (or have an option “show me unsafe websites”)edit: uptodown and softonic might not be as bad. Still wouldn’t download from them.
Wait til you hear about npm.
This reminds me of the new vector for malware that targets “vibe coders”. LLMs tend to hallucinate libraries that don’t exist. Like, it’ll tell you to add, install, and use jjj_image_proc or whatever. The vibe coder will then get an error like “that library doesn’t exist” and "can’t call jjj_image_proc.process()`.
But you, a malicious user, could go and create a library named
jjj_image_procand give it a function namedprocess. Vibe coders will then pull down and run your arbitrary code, and that’s kind of game over for them.You’d just need to find some commonly hallucinated library names
As a Typescript developer, npm is a damn mess. I ain’t got a clue how to handle these dependencies.
It’s taught me that bigger standard libraries are better. You still have similar issues, but at least nobody’s importing LeftPad. And your remaining dependency probably isn’t importing LeftPad either.
I feel like github should have verified repositories
Blue checkmark?
Checkered checkmark
Someone will probably attach an LLM and call it the Ultimate edition, because why not…
Big yikes energy
Thank goodness for distro repositories with somewhat-vetted software.
I’m not sure who they were trying to fool? Bluntly, if you’re keeping your passwords in a local repo using strong encryption via something like keepass, you’re generally not the kind of person to see “KeePassXE Pro ultra mega best edition” and blindly download it without vetting the source…
If it works once or twice it was probably worth it
i like Keepass, in fact I’ve been using it fot almost 2 years. Might consider going “GNU Pass” so I have more controls.
I used keepass since ages and about two years ago I switched to a self-hosted vaultwarden instance and I still think it was a great choice. So of you have a docker experience and a little VM lying around you could give vaultwarden/Bitwarden a try.
I myself prefer to keep good ass IRL
