--- title: Don’t Trust Password Managers? HIPPO May Be The Answer! description: HIPPO is a proposed storeless password manager system implemented as a browser extension paired with a central server. Instead of storing passwords in a vault,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-trust-password-managers-hippo-may-be-the-answer--kcauytxqx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don’t Trust Password Managers? HIPPO May Be The Answer! | daily.dev og:description: HIPPO is a proposed storeless password manager system implemented as a browser extension paired with a central server. Instead of storing passwords in a vault,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-trust-password-managers-hippo-may-be-the-answer--kcauytxqx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kCAUytXqx.png og:image:alt: Don’t Trust Password Managers? HIPPO May Be The Answer! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don’t Trust Password Managers? HIPPO May Be The Answer! **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 3 min read · 23 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary HIPPO is a proposed storeless password manager system implemented as a browser extension paired with a central server. Instead of storing passwords in a vault, it computes site-specific passwords on the fly using an Oblivious Pseudorandom Function (OPRF) protocol. The user's master passphrase and the site domain are hashed, blinded, and processed with the server's secret key — neither side ever sees the other's raw secret. The result is a unique, high-entropy, deterministic password per site, auto-filled by the extension. The tradeoff is that the HIPPO server becomes a single point of failure, and the system doesn't yet handle 2FA. It remains a research concept, not a live service. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@whoami8** · 3 upvotes > I have heard of this kind of unique password generators for a long time now. I am not at all convinced simply because we use our password not only on our computers but also with our phones, tablets etc... I do not see how such service would work with this devices. > > Maybe I should try one day, but for now I will stick with my self hosted password manager :) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Schneier on Security](https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-y2yzqqslm) · Schneier on Security · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The DPoP Storage Paradox: Why Browser-Based Proof-of-Possession Remains an Unsolved Problem](https://daily.dev/posts/the-dpop-storage-paradox-why-browser-based-proof-of-possession-remains-an-unsolved-problem-nardmfv4w) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I ditched Chrome's password manager for this open-source app and I'm never going back](https://daily.dev/posts/i-ditched-chrome-s-password-manager-for-this-open-source-app-and-i-m-never-going-back-supnmjamj) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AliasVault Is The BitWarden Alternative You Didn't Know You Needed](https://daily.dev/posts/aliasvault-is-the-bitwarden-alternative-you-didn-t-know-you-needed-a7uqhyxvb) · It's Foss · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#cryptography](https://daily.dev/tags/cryptography) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-trust-password-managers-hippo-may-be-the-answer--kcauytxqx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Don’t Trust Password Managers? 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