NilPass, the only password manager that's truly impenetrable
The only password manager that
NilPass, the only password manager that's truly impenetrable launched on April 2, 2017 with 13 votes, #763 of 3,007 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
NilPass is a password manager that stores and generates passwords using 80 bits of cryptographic entropy by default. It creates 14-character passwords designed to resist brute-force attacks. The tool is intended for users seeking to secure their online accounts with strong, randomly generated credentials. Its approach emphasizes cryptographic strength as the primary differentiator from other password managers.
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From the sources
Yes. That was already the case, whether you use NilPass or not. Without NilPass, they also could get in by guessing your password. All using NilPass does is reduce the number of ways you can get pwned. With 80 bits of cryptographic entropy (what NilPass uses by default), the odds of that are literally one in a million billion billion . If the NSA dedicated all of their code-cracking computer power just toward cracking your NilPass password, it would take them somewhere on the order of tens of thousands of years to find by brute force . I know, 14 characters doesn't look like much, but exponents are tricky like that. Okay, I concede that the extension itself isn't truly impenetrable - it's…from nilpass.com
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