SAFECLOSET
Best kept secrets
A man who keeps his cards close to his chest, we struggled to persuade Shashank Sharma to reveal how he protects his passwords.
TUTORIALS
Credit: https://github.com/Canop/safecloset
OUR EXPERT
Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in New Delhi, India, and an avid Arch user. He’s been writing about open source software for 20 years and lawyering for 10.
Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey, said the Beatles back in E the day. However, the correct phrase for the modern world would be, “Everybody’s got something to hide, especially me and my monkey.” If you’re still keeping all your passwords and other important information in a draft email, SafeCloset is for you.
One of the first mistakes people make is using the same username and password combination across different online services because of their inability and unwillingness, understandably, to remember multiple login credentials. With SafeCloset, you can store all your different login credentials and other important information in secure, password-protected files. While there are many password managers on offer, some of them built into modern desktop browsers, the advantage of having all your secrets at your fingertips, rather than surrendered to the safety of a third party service, cannot be overstated.
You’ll have to check the project’s GitHub page or the website (https://dystroy.org/safecloset) for a complete list of features. For now, you’ll appreciate that the project is cross-platform, which makes it possible for you to access your secrets from Windows, Mac and Android devices, in addition to all flavours of Linux .