
What's a password?
- Maarten Billemont
- Thursday, Feb 4, 2021
More than ever, online liberty requires breaking dependency on unreliable actors or corporate and state entities.
Your identity is safe only when its sole gatekeeper is you and it cannot be held hostage in a cloud account or behind a regulatory wall.
Sustainable security has no loopholes or caveats. It doesn’t come with terms on use, require backups, or expect blind trust.
Spectre achieves stateless identity management, vastly reducing the attack surface, making you immune to loss, confiscation, decryption and leaks.
Free means freedom. Free means equality. Free means power to the people. Free means transparent and auditable. Free means available, always.
Spectre is open-source, licensed Free Software and available gratis, forever.
Sign into any Spectre app from anywhere to access your passwords immediately.
No Internet connection required: Spectre does not upload or download your passwords from the cloud. You do not have an account with us and we hold no records on our users.
Tell Spectre who you need a password for and it’s there, on the spot.
Spectre cryptographically computes your site’s passwords from your sign-in identity. It works from any device, even that of a friend, or a brand new phone.
First time using Spectre for this site?
Change your old account password into Spectre’s generated password.
From now on, forget your old password, your site is securely protected by Spectre.
Just log in with your site’s Spectre password, that’s it.
Don’t worry about trying to remember it — just get it straight from Spectre.
Your digital identity belongs to you, first and foremost.
Severing the corporate hold over your digital access demands rethinking how we should secure our online accounts.
Spectre cryptographically insulates your sites from each other.
When online services fail and leak your login, this ensures the damage does not affect your other accounts.
Spectre doesn’t save any passwords: it computes them from nothing, on demand. Independence from external control is only possible by eliminating data dependency.
Data loss, destruction, confiscation, and identity ransoming are real threats.
Spectre is completely immune: borrow a friend’s device or reinstall on a fresh new device and recovery is instant — even offline!
Spectre doesn’t stop at passwords. Using our algorithm, you can eradicate the privacy invasion that is “security questions” or isolate your identity with cryptographically generated login names.
The public pre-release testing program is now open!
At this point, the program is accepting applications from users with these devices:
Beta participants will have full access to all of Spectre’s capabilities.
You’ll be invited to contribute suggestions and feedback on your experience.
If you’re interested, feel free to reach out by completing the form.
Participation is conditional on acceptance of our community guidelines.