SAPU

SAPU - Shawn's Aweful Password Utility

This is an incredibly hideuous but partially working command line password manager written in Haskell. Do NOT use this password manager. It does partially work, but your passwords are too valuable to trust to a flaky piece of junk password manager written by some bloke that likes to pop wheelies, watch GCN and ride two hundred miles on gravel in his free time...

Seriously, I'm planning on fixing these bugs over time, but right now I consider this code more a "work of art" than a functional piece of useable software. Hence my choice of Haskell rather than any run of the mill language. Haskell is very functional (pun intended) but my Haskell skills are crude and I need to spend more time on this project.

In the case of this code, Haskell was mainly chosen for aesthetic reasons. While I do not like the name of the Haskell package manager "cabal", I personally feel Haskell is the most beautiful programming language ever written. The code here in this project is almost an embarsement to the beauty of Haskell, but I feel humbled by the freedom to write code is such an elegant language.

Now, to more practical considerations:

1. Various Haskell packages were used to build this code. If I remember correctly they are: clipboard, haskeline, split and SimpleAES

2. To compile you will need to so something like this: cabal install clipboard cabal install haskeline cabal install split cabal install [otherStuffI_MayHaveForgot] ghc sapu.hs

3. I was planning on using the clipboard to keep the passwords from prying eyes but I haven't gotten that far yet. It's an easy modification but I just haven't gotten around to it.

4. When you first run the utility you will need to set an inMemory Crypto Key. That's option "s" from the main menu. The inMemory Crypto Key will be concatated with a key stored in extraKeyFile. The total lenght of the concatenation should be exactly 32 characters at this time. It it isn't, this program will crash.

5. Each time you run this program, you should use the same inMemory Crypto Key and Key from the extraKeyFile otherwise the program will likely crash on you and if it doesn't you're going to get very strange results

6. The is presently no way to change the keys used for a samplePassFile once it is created. If you feel you are using bad keys (or your keys have been comprimised) then you will need to recreate your samplePassFile from scratch. If you have large file, that will be a royal pain...

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You have been warned.

DO NOT USE Shawn's Aweful Password Utility

One the other hand if you daydream about Haskell

and how it can make the world a better place, you

are welcome to browse around

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NOTE: This README File will likely contain huge inaccuracies and probably won't keep pace with development. I don't have a lot of time on my hands but I'm planning on looking at this code again in the next few weeks.