This is my #wk110 about a project from when I was a real n00b. It can also be read as a rant about myself.

So I decided to code my own terminal based password manager. Because, you know, whom can you trust the most; yourself or some random password manager from the internet?

Obviously, encryption plays a major role when storing such sensitive information. So n00b me decided to go with Base64.

Base64.

I developed a password manager that stores your passwords in Base64 format.
What must I have thought?!
Perhaps the gibberish looks of Base64 encoded data made me think that this actually is encryption.
After having realized my stupidity, I quickly replaced Base64 with AES and more recently I completely rewrote the whole project which is now also available on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/bitteruhe/sesame

This act of stupidity still embarrasses me every time whenever I think about it, though.