Just discovered this cool project, thought i’d share it here.
AliasVault is an end-to-end encrypted password and alias manager that protects your privacy by creating alternative identities, passwords and email addresses for every website you use. Keeping your personal information private.
Link to website: https://www.aliasvault.net/
Link to source code (MIT Lisense): https://github.com/lanedirt/AliasVault
For those wondering how the alias feature works:
AliasVault includes a built-in email server that allows you to create unique email addresses (aliases) for different services. When someone sends an email to your alias, it’s received directly in AliasVault, helping you maintain privacy and reduce spam.
I’m a bit skeptical on the Email alias feature but this is a really cool project.
I just don’t know how practical it is to use custom domains to receive those confirmation emails.
Wouldn’t you receive a ton of spam once your email domain leaks (which will eventually happen)?
Email is also useful for password reset.
I’ve been using a wildcard accept rule on my main domain, and every once in a while one of the made up addresses gets out of hand, I just go in and blackhole it on my email server. I then send a nasty email to the admin of whoever got hacked or sold the address (sending from another bullshit address), as I use unique addresses per signup and keep track of them in my password manager. It seems to have kept my inbox fairly clean since anything to those addresses goes into a side folder.
Been doing it for 20 years, seems like a good strategy so far.
+1 on wildcard addresses. Any 10 min mail site is also great for anything unimportant.
I use a wildcard domain (with simplelogin which makes it easier to use). All the emails are sent to my normal email and it works great.
I have never heard of spammers spamming an entire domain like that. They are not human operated anyways.