Introducing the Mooltipass, a physical encrypted password keeper that remembers your credentials so you don't have to. With this device, you can generate and safely store long and complex passwords unique to each website you use. A personal PIN-locked smartcard allows the decryption of your credentials and ensures that only you have access to them. Simply visit a website and the device will ask for your confirmation to enter your credentials when login is required.
Over thirty people from all around the globe contributed to bring this project to where it is now, including software and firmware engineers, designers, mechanical engineers, artists, project managers, students and security engineers.
Our project started a year ago with a call for feedback and contributors. It turned out that people were thrilled by the idea of an open source password keeper and didn't hesitate to commit some (if not all!) of their personal time to join this adventure. Now three days are left to fully fund the project.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mooltipass-open-source-offline-password-keeper/x/8137850#home
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 03 2014, @07:59AM
Or so I recall. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by axsdenied on Wednesday December 03 2014, @08:11AM
Probably trying to increase publicity as they are short of the funding goal and there are only two days left.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 03 2014, @11:27AM
And here, about 17 years ago [youtube.com].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 03 2014, @08:32AM
Only thirty people, and it only stores passwords? How is that unique, or even notable?
Now, if every one of those developers is a black woman, that would be news. They would prove James Watson wrong, for science!
(Score: 1) by radu on Wednesday December 03 2014, @09:45AM
because I wouldn't want anyone to be able to brute-force my SN password with a computer, they should need a super-computer for that.
Even for serious things, like bank login - why do you need more than keepass? How do you backup this "physical encrypted" thing? Do you take it every day with you and risk losing it, or you "benefit" from it only when you're at home?
http://xkcd.com/538/ [xkcd.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 03 2014, @10:07AM
If you suck the site of Randal Monroe's unique penis will he store long and complex protein strings in your mouth?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 03 2014, @03:24PM
From the indigogo page:
"Each Mooltipass is shipped with two smart cards so that you can make a duplicate of your primary card to use as a backup. Similarly, you can securely backup the credentials stored in your Mooltipass on your computer to protect them from loss."
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday December 03 2014, @11:07AM
I really don't see the need for this.
It's big, bulky, and easily lost or dropped - just look at how many people drop their phones.
What if it gets lost.?
It also looks bloody awful. The UI designer needs to be shot and a new one brought in.
KeePass has an app for most operating systems and can sync between them (using a third-party sync provider)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 03 2014, @04:00PM
If you shoot the UI designer, you'll have a hard time to convince another one to join. :-)
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday December 03 2014, @04:40PM
UI design is not for the timid or faint of heart.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 03 2014, @05:05PM
The problem with password storage apps is that they inherently can't be trusted, obfuscated code being possible. They interact with an OS that can't be trusted for the same reason. Other services are running on the same system. Synching is such a horrendously dangerous activity that very mature software with two way auth and the best PKI still frequently get security updates to fix critical flaws. Do you really think a tiny little app can overcome all of those perennial problems? Of course not. No one but a fool would. So why use them?
Physical tokens like this one have several advantages and disadvantages. The most important one is this: you know when your security is lost because the device is lost too. That does not hold true with software. You will never get warning before it is too late.
(Score: 1) by NotSanguine on Wednesday December 03 2014, @10:16PM
That's got the be the best product [xkcd.com] ever!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 04 2014, @03:18AM