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I'm the creator of LessPass. We did not expect as many visits on our website. Thank you. We are working on:

* encrypt password profiles client side.

* help user change their master passwords (https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass/issues/36)

* mobile version(https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass/issues/6)

Change his master password seems to be the biggest problem for many of you. We will address this problem as a priority.

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I want to start using this, but I'm concerned what happens when a service changes their domain.

When the domain changes, even subtly like from api.foo.com to www.foo.com, it will break my ability to access the site. If I do not remember the previous URL, I will not be able to recover it.

More details in this github issue comment: https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass/issues/45#issuecomment-...

Has this been a real-life concern for you while you've used the tool?

I was quite surprised to see your extension, it is very similar to my Easy Passwords extension in both concept and design. I've had a brief look at the source code and I guess that it was a completely unrelated development after all?

Please increase the number of iterations, PBKDF2 with 8192 iterations is a very bad idea in year 2016. I would consider 100k iteration the lower limit, my Easy Passwords extension uses 256k. For reference, I described the threat scenario here:

https://palant.de/2016/04/20/security-considerations-for-pas...

Note that LastPass isn't a good example when it comes to security-relevant decisions. If you are interested, I published a lengthy writeup under https://security.stackexchange.com/a/137307/4778.

Hi Palant, I found your app in the comment today. So yes, LessPass was developed it independently.

And yes we are working in a way to change the number of rounds of PBKDF2. https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass/issues/38

API already evolve (https://github.com/lesspass/core/commit/70bebd5e5bcd0c9a32ac...), we are updating the user interface.

I don't think that this is sufficient as long as 8192 is still the default. Personally, I don't think that exposing the number of iteration is a good idea at all - users have no way of knowing how much is enough. Frankly, it took me quite a while to find out what contemporary hardware (especially GPUs) is capable of and how many iterations should be considered safe today.

LessPass starts with 8192 iterations. I prepare the code to increase this number, I will not let users change it. We are creating an interface to change master password and then we will plan a LessPass version change (with a number of iterations changes)

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