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Other Editions - Feature Requests / Enhancements / Re: Sailfish OS App for PWM: I'm writing one and would now like to publish it...

« Last post by Miquel 'Fire' Burns on October 08, 2022, 03:37:22 PM »

You talked about Qt, and it reminded me that I made a port a long time ago with it: https://sourceforge.net/p/passwordmaker/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/desktop+qt/ (And yes, the project is old enough that SVN was the main SCM in use on the internet)

I'm fairly certain that the code I wrote might not be usable now, as the version of Qt it was made for may not compile cleanly for modern systems.

This is the code all of the PasswordMaker code is based off of, though you'll have to learn an extension system that is LONG dead: https://sourceforge.net/p/passwordmaker/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/ff+moz+ns+flock/

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Other Editions - Feature Requests / Enhancements / Sailfish OS App for PWM: I'm writing one and would now like to publish it...

« Last post by soulsource on October 08, 2022, 11:54:39 AM »

Hi!

I've been working on a native Sailfish OS app that would aim to be compatible with PasswordMaker Pro.

My use case is that I'm using PWM Pro on the desktop, but the version of the Android App that's in F-Droid is ancient, and doesn't work on the Android compatibility layer offered by modern Sailfish OS versions any more. The other hash-based password generators in Sailfish Store seem to be incompatible with PasswordMaker Pro.
Sooo, I decided to get hacking in my spare time.

The app is a complete reimplementation with all the business logic implemented in Rust, and no source code shared with the original PasswordMaker Pro.
However, it's not a clean room implementation, as I've looked up how some things behave in PasswordMaker Pro by reading the source of the JavaScript edition.

I'm writing here to make sure that it's OK if I publish the app on the Sailfish OS Store, under the following license terms:

• I'll be very clear on the application's "About" page and in the Readme file that it is a reimplementation of PasswordMaker Pro and link the website.
• The business logic of the program will be put in a separate Rust library, I'm planning to call it "passwordmaker-rs". That one would be licensed under LGPL since it should probably be considered a derivative work of PasswordMaker Pro.
• The application binary itself is going to use Qt (obviously, as it's for Sailfish OS), and will therefore be published under GPL.

I'm of course planning to upload the sources to Github, but before I put them publicly on the internet, I'd like to get the OK to actually do that.

Then there's also the topic of naming and artwork, where I'd like to get some feedback:
Since I'm not very good at naming things, my current best idea for a program name would be "PasswordSailor" to hint at it being a PasswordMaker derivate, for Sailfish OS. For recognizability I'd use the PWM Pro Logo (the ring) with a sailor's hat on top...
Buut I'm of course open for suggestions here.

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Bugs / Alerting messages regarding Chrome Extension

« Last post by Ilgaz on May 10, 2021, 07:03:45 PM »

Hello

I noticed MS Edge (now chrome based) removed passwordmaker extension alerting Google removed it. I checked Google Chrome and same deal, they claim a policy violation. It is bug tracked here
https://github.com/passwordmaker/chrome-passwordmaker/issues/180

I would say people are seriously concerned. Care to have a look at what is happening and why maintainer is silent?

Have a nice day

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Other Editions - Help and Support / Re: Problem running the Java edition "pwmje-win32-win32-0.7.2.jar"

« Last post by Eric H. Jung on March 11, 2021, 06:41:29 PM »

I believe the fact that today's security environment makes something like PasswordMaker not very useful. Doesn't help that sites get their databases stolen all the time.

@miquel, can you please add me to https://github.com/passwordmaker
My github username is ericjung
Not sure why I'm already a member...

https://passwordmaker.webful.uk/

However, the program is left a bit behind, I don't know why there is not much development on it.

There are editions that are still actively maintained. Take a look at Noel Light-Hilary's work:
https://noellh.com/blog/passwordmaker-gets-profiles-more-options-probably-some-bugs/
https://github.com/NoelLH
https://noellh.com/blog/webful-passwordmaker-app-out-now/

He's got a web edition (web page), mobile apps, and a browser extension -- and possibly others.

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Other Editions - Help and Support / Re: Problem running the Java edition "pwmje-win32-win32-0.7.2.jar"

« Last post by Miquel 'Fire' Burns on March 07, 2021, 06:42:40 PM »

I believe the fact that today's security environment makes something like PasswordMaker not very useful. Doesn't help that sites get their databases stolen all the time.

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Other Editions - Help and Support / Re: Problem running the Java edition "pwmje-win32-win32-0.7.2.jar"

« Last post by gordon2 on March 07, 2021, 03:29:19 PM »

Thanks for the info!
Finally I did a workaround that worked.
Creating a .bat file with the line
java -jar pwmje-win32-win32-0.7.x.jar -jar
in it, and running the .bat file.
By the way, do you know the differences between the 0.7.2 and 0.7.3 versions?
What I love in passwordmaker it that it does not give any indication on the hacker that the master password is not correct.
It just gives wrong passwords if you enter wrong paster password. So it makes brute force attach much harder.
However, the program is left a bit behind, I don't know why there is not much development on it.
I wonder if there is something equivalent out there..

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Other Editions - Help and Support / Re: Problem running the Java edition "pwmje-win32-win32-0.7.2.jar"

« Last post by Miquel 'Fire' Burns on March 07, 2021, 03:07:43 PM »

Sounds like a Java install issue. It's possible you have a newer version that isn't compatible with the old Java version of PasswordMaker.

Also, there is a new version at https://github.com/landshark666/passwordmaker-je though I doubt it will fix anything for you if it's a version mismatch.

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Other Editions - Help and Support / Problem running the Java edition "pwmje-win32-win32-0.7.2.jar"

« Last post by gordon2 on March 07, 2021, 02:21:27 PM »

When I double click the pwmje-win32-win32-0.7.2.jar file, nothing happens.
When I right-click, it says:
Type of file: JAR File (.jar)
Opens wirh: Java(TM) Platform SE b

The strange thing is that in my old laptop, it works fine, years now. But I remember I had problems to make it work, even back then.
In my old lapotop I get the following printouts:
Type of file: Executable Jar File (.jar)   <<<<<<<<<<<<========= This is different!
Opens wirh: Java(TM) Platform SE b

Can anyone please help?
How can I make it "Type of file: Executable Jar File (.jar)"?

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Other / Re: New mobile app

« Last post by Eric H. Jung on June 14, 2019, 02:28:52 AM »

I think you only added his Android version. There's an iphone one, too. When I click iphone in the tree on the wiki, it goes to https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/passwordmaker-org-password/id359001896?mt=8 -- that should be a page instead listing the two iphone options (and maybe more)

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Other / Re: New mobile app

« Last post by Miquel 'Fire' Burns on June 13, 2019, 04:21:33 PM »

It's already on the list.