1Password has unveiled a full-featured desktop app for Linux, written in Rust and using the ring crypto library for end-to-end encryption.
The release features encrypted browser and desktop integration and, according to the business, "uses the Linux kernel keyring to establish a fully encrypted connection between 1Password in your browser and 1Password for Linux."
The upshot is that if one is unlocked, so will be the other.
"This is the most advanced browser integration for a password manager available in Linux," trumpeted the company.
The beta emerged in October 2020 with support for tiling window managers and biometric unlocking. The release "is available for all major Linux distributions" via signed packages or Ubuntu's Snap Store. A .tar.gz download is on offer otherwise.
1Password is, however, not as open source as penguinistas might like, despite the company insisting that "many ..
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