elkee

Native KeePass client for Emacs

Elkee, unlike other KeePass clients, strives for requiring zero third-party binaries, and working wherever Emacs works due to being written in ELisp. No C#, no C++, no linking against libs, no shell exec, just pure ELisp. Working Emacs (and optionally a good package manager) should be the only thing needed.

It's not there yet. For the first clean implementation it needs three critical parts: ChaCha20 (RFC7539), Blake2 (RFC7693) and Argon2 (RFC9106). Currently only Argon2 remains and its implementation is already in progress, soon replacing the last requirement for the binary.

Fortunately, argon2 binary is present on all large platforms Emacs is available on including Android (via Termux and/or copy-paste out of it), so the only requirement is to have it on $PATH.

The targeted container is KeePass 2.x KDBX file, that means:

KeePass	KDBX
2.00	1.0
2.07	1.1
2.08	1.2
2.09	2.0
2.11	2.4
2.15	3.0
2.20	3.1
2.35	4.0
2.48	4.1

of which KDBX 4.x is implemented at the moment. Writing to the KDBX file is currently not supported and is of a lesser priority than supporting the reading of other KDBX versions due to other means available for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android including various synchronization methods across machines where KDBX editing is faster and more comfortable.

Out of all KDBX 4.x algorithms available, only the chain ChaCha20-Blake2-Argon2 is supported at the moment, but contributions are welcome.

TODO:

• Argon2, soon, fallback to argon2 binary currently
• Other non-default algorithms available in KDBX4
• KDBX3

How to

Clone and install manually, then:

1. Ensure Kaesar Emacs library is installed
2. (require 'elkee)
3. (elkee-find-creds "file.kdbx" "password" "keyfile-or-nil" :title "Item")

For more visit function documentation for:

• elkee-find-creds
• elkee-list-creds

or use other public funcs for reading the data manually.