On: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

[inertial]

Switched from pass to gopass recently : (https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass). It's open source and has a tad bit more features over pass. Some of the reasons for my choice to switch:

- compatible with pass

- support for multiple stores

- store binary data (e.g. QR codes for seeding 2FA) : upcoming

- report / track issues on github.com/justwatchcom/gopass/issues

- more details here : https://www.justwatch.com/gopass/docs/

[philsnow → inertial]

fun fact: 2FA QR codes contain the secret as just part of a url. you don't need to save the binary image, just figure out what the (usually base32-encoded) secret value is, and store that. google authentcator lets you type in the base32-encoded secret (useful if your phone's camera is broken). see e.g. https://garbagecollected.org/2014/09/14/how-google-authentic...

[ekimekim → inertial]

The original pass seems to handle binary data fine:

    $ pass insert -m mybinarysecret <secret.png
    $ pass show mybinarysecret >secret.png

Admittedly, it's not very user-friendly, but some simple wrapper scripts could fix that.