Secure Vault: Your Digital Guardian 🔒

This project was inspired by KeePass, a local password manager.

Restarting this project to have it use the SpringFramework ❗ (View LTS branch to see the old Impl)

My goals for this project ✅

• Add a database using JDBC so that users can retrieve passwords stored in previous sessions
• Implement a master password that a user must always enter before accessing data. The user must have the ability to reset or change this password. This can be achieved by providing them with a 256-bit key which the user stores safely. This key will also change when the user changes the master password.
• Encrypt all data that will be written into the database using AES
• Implement a GUI using JavaFX
• Try to comply with NIST standards for password storage.

What I could do differently 🔂

• Use Hibernate: An ORM would significantly change the ease of creating the application since I would not have to deal with JDBC. I decided against using Hibernate to re-learn JDBC concepts.

Problems with the current version 🤔

• Design: The UI is for demonstration purposes only, it simply gets the job done. In the future, I would work on a better, more interactive UI.
• Application is available locally only: From a security standpoint, it is NOT as safe to host the application on the web. However, the reward of multi-platform usability outweighs the security concerns (which can be dealt with).