Master Password Backup
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
May 8, 2026
99% of my passwords are stored in a password manager.
To encrypt the vault I obviously need a master password, which I memorized and practice regularly to not forget it.
But maybe I could forget my master password.
So I need to backup it somehow.
I don’t want to have a single piece of paper where the master password is just written down, because if someone finds this, he could directly decrypt my .kdbx file and read all my passwords.
So I did some research and decided to make a Shamir Secret Sharing.
But the problem is that I can’t find a tool where I can put in my master password and get out multiple shares of words.
All the tools I found, either only accept Hex values, or make undesirable (for my purpose) outputs, like QR codes or Hex values.
I just want to enter words and get words back that I them can write done on multiple papers.
Does someone have a solution?
How do you backup your master passwords?
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