Why another password manager

There are a lot of password managers out there. Rooster has some unique goals:

• it is easy to maintain so that it never becomes unmaintained
• it works completely offline with optional support for online sync
• it stores simple username/password tuples, nothing more, nothing less

Rooster protects your passwords with state-of-the-art cryptography algorithms:

• scrypt for key derivation
• aes256-cbc for encryption
• hmac-sha256 for authentication

To top it off, it works Linux, BSD and OSX.

Installation

On Arch Linux, you install Rooster from AUR.

On Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu/OSX:

shell curl -sSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/conradkdotcom/rooster/master/install.sh' | sh

For BSD and other Linux distributions:

• make sure you have pkg-config, python3, libxmu-dev, libx11-dev and one of xsel/xclip
• install Rust and Cargo with: bash curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y
• install Rooster with: bash cargo install --root /usr rooster

Once you have installed Rooster (see instructions below), you can view documentation with:

shell rooster --help

Automated tests

Rooster has 2 sets of tests:

• code level tests which you can run with cargo test
• integration tests which you can run with ./integration-tests.sh

You'll need to install Docker to run integration tests.

Contributors

We welcome contribution from everyone. Feel free to open an issue or a pull request at any time.

Check out the unassigned issues to get started. If you have any questions, just let us know and we'll jump in to help.

Here's a list of existing Rooster contributors:

• @conradkleinespel
• @Eternity-Yarr
• @jaezun
• @maxjacobson
• @qmx
• @yamnikov-oleg
• Awesome Rustaceans from the Rust Paris meetup

Thank you very much for your help! :smiley: :heart: