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I looked at the LastPass ones (all for Android) and they look relatively minor. The only real wtf is https://team-sik.org/sik-2016-022/ - hardcoding keys should be a big nope. Still, it happens only if you use a PIN rather than your master password; I hope this does not happen in iOS if you use TouchID...?



I have such a strong password that typing it repeatedly on a mobile device isn't doable. And so I use PINs or fingerprints, depending on device. I find this acceptable because I worry less about physical access to my device, versus somebody gaining access to my encrypted database, which is also stored on Dropbox.

But I still expect that storing the master password locally is secure, otherwise why the fuck am I paying them for?

Speaking of LastPass, I've noticed them doing stupid things like this in the past and the problem is that I feel those bugs wouldn't have been discovered and made public if they weren't so popular. And I expect such a company to take security seriously, because this is what they sell. Hard-coding a symmetric encryption key isn't a minor slip up, this is the kind of mistake that I for one couldn't do, even though I'm no security expert. If they could do such an obvious mistake, then I can't trust them, regardless of their response time.


TouchID on iOS uses the Secure Enclave, so hardcoded encryption keys are unlikely for anything that uses TouchID.


The very bottom of that report says the vulnerability was fixed last September, which seems like burying the lede




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