Built my own password manager in Rust — learned a ton about encryption and ownership 🦀

Hey folks,
I’ve been learning Rust and decided to build something practical _ a command-line password manager that stores credentials locally and securely, no servers or cloud involved.

🔗 Repo: github.com/hrashkan/password_manager

Main features:

• AES-256-GCM encryption
• Key derivation with Argon2 (based on a master password)
• add, get, list, delete commands
• Stores everything in an encrypted JSON vault

It started as a learning project but turned into something I actually use. I wanted to understand how encryption, key handling, and file I/O work in Rust — and honestly, it was a fun deep dive into ownership, error handling, and safe crypto usage.

Next steps:

• Add a password generator
• Improve secret handling (memory zeroing, etc.)
• Maybe wrap it in a simple Tauri GUI

I’d love feedback from the community — especially around security practices or cleaner Rust patterns.