Security News > 2021 > May > 1Password unsheathes Rusty key, hopes to unlock Linux Desktop world

1Password has unveiled a full-featured desktop app for Linux, written in Rust and using the ring crypto library for end-to-end encryption.

The release features encrypted browser and desktop integration and, according to the business, "Uses the Linux kernel keyring to establish a fully encrypted connection between 1Password in your browser and 1Password for Linux."

1Password is not as open source as penguinistas might like, despite the company insisting that "Many libraries of 1Password for Linux have also been shared back to the community, including an Electron hardener and secure defaults package."

Subscriptions start with a personal one at $2.99 per month although the company will dole out freebie accounts to the deserving: "If you work on an open-source team that needs a password manager, open a pull request in our 1Password for Open Source Projects repo and we'll give you and everybody on your team a free account."

Of course, 1Password runs on a variety of devices.

With 1Password projecting some impressive growth in Linux OS market size the arrival of its app in fully featured desktop form is unsurprising.

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