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Yeah I can see what you mean, but it wasn't really intentional. I mainly wanted to avoid the usual black/blue security-product look. I will probably keep the general direction but give it more of its own identity over time. Thank you for sharing your opinion!


I don't really have anything against the big password managers either. I just don't love having to pay for a full year upfront with some of them. More than that though, a lot of them just don't quite fit what I want, or they feel a bit dated to use, like KeePassXC. That's a big part of why I started building Sesame. (and hoping to expand later on to have a more pleasurable ecosystem)


Yes. Every lock entry point (manual, auto-lock timer, app shutdown) funnels through one function, so the behavior can't drift, that calls lock_for_lifecycle, which drops the unlocked session. Dropping UnlockedVault zeroizes the 32-byte vault key and the whole in-memory payload in place before deallocation: names, logins, notes, cards, SSH keys, TOTP material, history, trash. Parsed import rows are wiped on lock too, and a session epoch is bumped so any pending browser fill approval dies with the lock! (also to mention it does not cover swap and hibernation files) ((also to mention I couldn't link the lines to mentioned functions but if you want to take a look, look at these lines: src-tauri/src/vault/mod.rs:78 sesame-core/src/lib.rs:197 sesame-core/src/lib.rs:225 types.rs:2184 ))


This response feels very AI generated. Which does not bode well for my faith in this project if the maintainer doesn’t even know basic facts about how it works and has to ask his AI.


Passkeys will be added in the coming weeks


please prioritize, i'm keen on that


KeePassXC is definitely much more mature right now. I mean, Sesame is similar in being local-first and not requiring a cloud service, but I am aiming for a more modern consumer style experience. There is still a lot of work ahead to get it up to speed. I might also build more products around it eventually, so there’s a consistent ecosystem.

(and of course, it would be great to eventually surpass some of the existing projects :) )


What do you mean by a "consumer style experience"?


subscription style paid program, of course. Starting at 1 dollar a month now, until they get market penetration, then they will jack up prices (for increased opex, ostensibly). The classic SaaS playbook.


Curious what was the use case that drove the creation?


vaultwarden + bitwarden is way more mature right now, but the main difference is that sesame is local-first by design. Vaultwarden also depends on staying compatible with bitwarden's clients/api, while this owns the whole stack


bitwarden clients are open source, so it would be possible to fork them if bitwarden ever makes user unfriendly decisions


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