What is Passworphobia?
In the modern world, the most popular option to store a password is to either use a password manager
or just use absolutely the same password for everything (Actually, there's a lot more, but that's the most common example).
While the last method is obviously not recommended, the first one is actually not bad, but it requires
you to trust either a cloud solution or the encryption that will hold your passwords on your device.
And in case you accidentally lose your device... in simple words, it will be tough.
Overall, you're pretty much limited in case you want to take a more independent approach.
While our minds are not ideal in memorizing long passwords filled with random characters for each service - they are very strong
in remembering words and sentences, even generating visual cues. That's our strength, and in security we probably should
promote it even more (I'm referring to the popular passphrase comic).
Passworphobia is a passwordless password-manager that empowers your mind to manage your passwords. At its core, it functions as a hashing tool: taking a string as input and generating a complex password. The crucial part is its consistency: the output remains the same as long as the salt and passphrase remain unchanged. This means that with a single memorable salt and passphrase, you can consistently generate the same password for your needs. The point of Passworphobia is to make you a very difficult target for an attacker, while also providing you the freedom and flexibility to manage your passwords in a powerful and rememberable way.
Why Passworphobia?
- You're independent from cloud providers or encryption strength!
- You're no longer device dependent, it's all in your memory.
- Passworphobia doesn't store passwords - it's all about consistent input!
- Your salt and passphrases are traceless, even in a database breach.
- Configurable character set - works even on stupid websites with character limits...
- Have to change your passwords constantly? Just create a new salt!
- We support (and recommend) different writing systems for your passphrases/salts.
- Absolutely free and open source - we don't hide anything!
What is salt?
The whole concept of Passworphobia is that it's an ordinary, predictable password generator. It's made in such a way, that the same input will consistently give the same result. For example:
No matter how many times you put passphrase1 as input - it will always give Qbi128_c91_d83 as a result. However, just by adding/removing a single character, the whole result drastically changes:
That's the key idea of our password management strategy.
This, however, isn't secure at all, because an attacker can just generate a whole bunch of these common
passphrases and call it a day. That's why Passworphobia has salt.
Salt here is just an additional string that goes before our main input. Here's an example:
saltpassphrase1 = 8nBmqPQb1_21u
Salt is how your passwords gain uniquenness and it's a crucial concept of Passworphobia.
The basic idea is that you create a complex but rememberable salt (4 words passphrase recommended, checkout the comic)
and then you reuse the same salt but with different shorter passphrases (Could be 2 words. You decide for yourself).
Since writing the salt all over again is tiresome - we store it locally on your device, using the masterpassword
for encryption. (You of course, can type your salt manually if you want).
If you ever need to change all of your passwords (There are environments that enforce that) - you only have to change
your salt. Additionally, if you're coming from a different language (And possibly different writing system) - use it,
it's actually way more unpredictable and could even be more comfortable for you. The best from both worlds we would say.
The point is: possibilities are limitless and you can achieve whatever you want.
How does it work?
1
Download the app, install a master password
2
Go to settings, install a memorable salt of 4 random words
3
Go back to type your simple passphrase
4
Copy the generated password
5
Use it
6
Clear everything with the erase button (It erases your clipboard)
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Attention!
Before downloading and trying out our app, you have to accept the fact that you won't be immune to security with it.
Everything depends on you and your use. Our algorithm might have security issues which we'll try to mitigate, but
nothing is 100% secure and you should acknowledge that before downloading the app.
We don't take any responsibility for your actions.