Unlock app windows with device Apple or Android

[Benoit63]

Hello,

I have a suggestion for Enpass.

Would it be possible to implement an unlocking function with the mobile application and apple watch for windows, linux without having to type in your master password?

Thinks

[Garima Singh]

Hey @Benoit63

We have noted your suggestion to unlock Enpass app on Windows and Linux device using the mobile or apple watch and shared it with the team. Thanks for showing your interest in this feature. Keep suggesting!

 

[Breizh22]

Would it be possible to implement an unlocking function with the mobile application and apple watch for windows, linux without having to type in your master password?

Thinks

 

+1 

[Bob___]

That would be a game changer +1

[PESER]

On 4/10/2021 at 9:34 AM, Benoit63 said:

Hello,

I have a suggestion for Enpass.

Would it be possible to implement an unlocking function with the mobile application and apple watch for windows, linux without having to type in your master password?

Thinks

I am pretty sure its not something enpass can implement without apps actually implementing that feature in the login themselves.

[Solomon]

50 minutes ago, PESER said:

I am pretty sure its not something enpass can implement without apps actually implementing that feature in the login themselves.

I don't believe they're talking about unlocking desktop applications with Enpass.

To hopefully clarify, I believe they're asking to be able to unlock the desktop version of Enpass with the mobile version.

An example flow:

* Open desktop enpass
* Open mobile enpass
* unlock mobile enpass with biometrics
* mobile enpass then prompts to unlock desktop enpass

This is certainly do-able, but is not exactly trivial and is full of major potential security vulnerabilities.

The big issues:

* The two versions would have to find eachother in some way, this means likely setting up a whole network discovery system, just to identify that both are on the network.
* This can create privacy concerns as the applications are now advertising themselves over the network
* When unlocking this way, this requires sending the encryption key over the network between the devices. There's no way to avoid this as the desktop does not have a safe place to store the encryption key like the phone does. There's a lot of possibilities for this method to be used to compromise the encryption of your password database (it will a lot of work and oversight to maintain this function securely).