Would you like to run Clipperz from your own server? Then you will be happy to know that we just decided to provide our password manager as a downloadable package.

The system requirements to install it on your server will be minimal (just PHP 5) and we will provide it as donationware. Moreover the Clipperz package will be distributed with a very flexible AGPL v3 license.

But we first need a little help from you …

The actual Clipperz service has a complex backend built with Java,Tomcat, Cayenne, Postgres. It needs to be very robust and scalable, but most the features implemented are not really relevant for a personal or corporate installation (such as hashcash policies to defeat bots). Therefore we want to write a simplified version of the backend using PHP, in order to obtain a very simple installation procedure.

The only challenging part of the new PHP backend will be the development of a “proxy module” to interact with DWR calls.

But if DWR allows smooth interaction between the Javascript code on the browser and the Java backend, why we need to preserve DWR calls once we get rid of Java?

Good question. The answer is that we prefer to have a single version of the Javascript code running on the browser, regardless of the backend. This will make security reviews easier and we will have more eyeballs looking at the very same code.

Unfortunately we have very limited PHP skills and we are looking for a good PHP developer willing to help us.

If you are interested, please drop us a line. Thanks!