diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 07c2297..801312c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ `scat` is a *password scatterer*. It allows the generation of unique passwords for each service, website, email address or account you might have, all from a single password. +## Disclaimer + +`scat` is not the best one can achieve in security. If you are interested in a more secure system, look at [pwsafe][pwsafe] for instance. +The system is potentially vulnerable when an attacker can gather generated keys. + +That being said, if you tend to reuse the same password everywhere and do not want to store all passwords in a database, +you might be better off using `scat` than to keep using the same password or a slight variation for each website. + ## Motivation Nowadays, accounts for many services such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Google, Amazon, your bank account, etc. are needed. @@ -142,5 +150,6 @@ Name | Contributions :--- | :------------ Romain Edelmann | Initial work on the project. +[pwsafe]: http://nsd.dyndns.org/pwsafe/ [diceware]: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html [haskell-platform]: http://www.haskell.org/platform/ \ No newline at end of file