It's not like I'm writing the algorithms from scratch, OpenSSL is doing all of the heavy lifting. I'm aiming for actual simplicity, and so my vault format is harder to get wrong than parsing PGP packets (sure, that's handled by GPG in the case of pass, but it is still needless complexity for a password manager).

As for the "safer than pass" thing, pass does not encrypt entry names, so yes encrypting my way is safer than not encrypting at all in that aspect at least. Plus the whole KDF + symmetric only thing, though if you don't trust the way I handle it I have nothing to add here.

And I wouldn't translate "use it at your own risk" to "please use it". More like "you may use it if you choose so". You are free to back me up or tear it apart, or do nothing and go about your day. The software is not production-ready, though any help to change that is welcome.

Thank you for your attention.