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<blockquote data-quote="Threadripper" data-source="post: 841463" data-attributes="member: 78223"><p>Your OTP won't protect you if your password manager is hacked, or anything is hacked for that matter. Once the database is local your "vault" is encrypted with your master password in most password managers, and secret key as well in 1Password.</p><p></p><p>Without going too deep into AES and KDF I'll keep it simple. A secret key is a pretty neat idea, but in reality, if your master password is good then it's not going to make that much of a difference. It is in theory more secure, but as long as your master password is genuinely good the secret key will be more of an inconvenience, or at least that's how I found it when I tried 1Password.</p><p></p><p>Your master password is absolutely crucial. Make it good, don't use it anywhere else and never store it anywhere else unless it is physically secure. If you do this, you'll be fine assuming your password manager implemented everything accordingly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Threadripper, post: 841463, member: 78223"] Your OTP won't protect you if your password manager is hacked, or anything is hacked for that matter. Once the database is local your "vault" is encrypted with your master password in most password managers, and secret key as well in 1Password. Without going too deep into AES and KDF I'll keep it simple. A secret key is a pretty neat idea, but in reality, if your master password is good then it's not going to make that much of a difference. It is in theory more secure, but as long as your master password is genuinely good the secret key will be more of an inconvenience, or at least that's how I found it when I tried 1Password. Your master password is absolutely crucial. Make it good, don't use it anywhere else and never store it anywhere else unless it is physically secure. If you do this, you'll be fine assuming your password manager implemented everything accordingly. [/QUOTE]
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