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Clear clipboard after n seconds #101

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devgeeks opened this issue Jul 24, 2014 · 3 comments
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Clear clipboard after n seconds #101

devgeeks opened this issue Jul 24, 2014 · 3 comments

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@devgeeks
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For desktop, this will be trivial.

For mobile, I might need to modify the clipboard plugin(s) to allow background access...

@devgeeks devgeeks added this to the 1.0.1 milestone Jul 24, 2014
@devgeeks devgeeks self-assigned this Jul 24, 2014
@devgeeks devgeeks modified the milestones: 1.0.1, 1.1.0 Sep 3, 2014
@shibacomputer shibacomputer modified the milestones: 3.0, 1.2.0 Jul 22, 2015
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This is essential, but is moved to 2.0

@shibacomputer shibacomputer modified the milestones: 2.0.0, 3.0 Jul 22, 2015
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radumas commented Jan 7, 2016

keepass2 (and specifically keepass2android) both implement this. Keepass2android uses its own keyboard to copy/paste, which bypasses any attempt by malicious apps to read the clipboard.

A German research team has demonstrated that most clipboard-based access of credentials as used by most Android password managers is not safe[1]: Every app on your phone can register for changes of the clipboard and thus be notified when you copy your passwords from the password manager to your clipboard. In order to protect against this kind of attack, you should use the Keepass2Android keyboard: When you select an entry, a notification will appear in the notification bar. This notification lets you easily switch to the KP2A keyboard. This is a simple keyboard with an important key: click the Keepass2Android symbol to "type" your credentials. Click the keyboard key to switch back to your favorite keyboard.

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FranciscoG commented Jan 17, 2017

curious on the status of this, a year later. Was this added and this issue just wasn't closed? This is a pretty important security issue for Android Password managers.

edit:
There's a discussion about Android security going on right now on Hacker News where the top comment brings up the clipboard issue again. This issue is huge and is making me already plan on switching to KeePass and Keepass2android.

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