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Back in the day I used to use Truecrypt for my customers data/secrets but then it was discontinued and it's successor seems to be abandonware. That was okay because I switched careers shortly afterwards and had little need for encryption again until recently.
I used to have to spend a fair bit of time copying and pasting passwords, access tokens and ssl keys back and forth between console sessions and text files held in truecrypt volumes. That was a bit tiresome so something with a bit more OS/terminal integration than that would be a boon.
KDE's inbuilt password manager is so broken and awful I've had to take steps to disable it. I've used firefox's password manager for the last few years which has been okay but now I could really use something that can store notes too. I don't just want to use a fully encrypted drive as I believe the majority of my risk comes from my system getting infected with malware someday, not my laptop being stolen. I also like having a small encrypted file to back up rather than having to mess around making encrypted backup partitions and disks so I'd strongly prefer some sort of secure vault.
I thought I'd try lastpass (after hearing Steve and Leo banging on about it for so many years) but that seems to be some sort of web based thing that has no OS integration - so I don't see how its any better for me than truecrypt/veracrypt. It also sounds less secure as it does everything via a web facing browser plugin that, according to wikipedia, has been victim to several exploits over the years. It's also proprietary which makes me a bit uneasy.
So is Veracrypt still my best option? Or am I unfairly maligning lastpass? Or are there better, more linux friendly, solutions available now?
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