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		mprime1 on Dec 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets ... Indeed, it's functionally similar to password-protected PDF or ZIP for some use cases. You should probably not treat password-protected zips as secure: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35818/are-passw...

maqp on Dec 21, 2022 [–]

The argument your answer makes discusses confidentiality issues with passwords in Zip-files, yet the Portable Secret application doesn't take any major steps or use best practices like Argon2 to solve "brute forcing the password" problem.

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