Switching to OPVault

admdly

I've seen the post on how to upgrade (wish I'd seen it sooner as I've been asking for a way to do so for a while). However, I'm curious if upgrading an existing vault offers the same security as a new OPVault. For example; just off the top of my head I believe Agile Keychain uses AES-128 bit keys. Does upgrading regenerate these keys as AES-256 as used in OPVault?

Any information regarding the differences or downsides of upgrading vs creating a new vault with the new format would be appreciated.

--Adam

AGAlumB

@admdly: AgileKeychain currently uses AES256 as well. Additionally, there isn't a way to 'convert' between the two; you're simply creating a new vault and moving your existing data to it, and the OPVault format doesn't change depending on the circumstances. An OPVault is an OPVault is an OPVault. ;)

admdly

@brenty Thanks for the response. In that case does it mean the local stored format is in the older format or is it recreated at some point? I'm guessing it's recreated after disabling sync and reenabling it but I'm just checking.

AGAlumB

@admdly: Hmm. I'm not sure I understand the question, but perhaps this helps: 1Password actually maintains an internal SQLite database which is based on the OPVault specification. So effectively, if you're not syncing at all, you're using OPVault. And once you enable OPVault (with the Terminal command), if you start syncing, the external copy of the vault which is created in the sync location will be OPVault as well. I hope this helps! :)