{"id":48416,"date":"2025-03-20T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48416"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:43:22","slug":"lptk-stateless-password-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/lptk-stateless-password-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"LPTK – LessPass Compatible Password Manager Designed for GNOME"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking for a stateless password manager? There’s now a new LessPass compatible password manager designed for GNOME, though of course works in other Linux desktops.<\/p>\n

It’s LPTK<\/a>, a free open-source application written in Rust and use GTK4 for its user interface. With the app, you can generate and access your passwords, and optionally connect to a compatible LessPass server to read and store password profiles.<\/p>\n

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LPTK password manager<\/p><\/div>\n

What are LessPass and LPTK?<\/h3>\n

With traditional password managers (e.g, KeePass), you need to first create a database file to store data. Then, you can use single master password to unlock the database to access all your passwords or save new passwords.<\/p>\n

LessPass is a stateless password manager that does NOT store any data. No database, no sync, and works offline!<\/p>\n

It works just like a calculator or generator. By giving a master password, username and website\/service name (also it doesn’t remember what you inputted), it generates an unique passphrase for you.<\/p>\n

Then, at anytime, anywhere, with any app clients, it will show you exact the same passphrase once you inputted same master password, username and website\/service name.<\/p>\n

It does not use master password for authentication, but for computation! Meaning only remember a master password and usernames, then you can get all the passwords with LessPass.<\/b><\/p>\n

In case for those don’t even remember usernames, there’s an optional local API server that can store the website\/service names, login-names, passphrase options (e.g, length, case sensitive or not) that you inputted, except the master password that you inputted.<\/p>\n

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LessPass clients include:<\/b><\/p>\n