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I've been struggling with trying to select a new password manager to migrate from one I adopted a few years ago. I am happy to type uid's and pwd's. The reaso
by rebootthesystem 10y ago
I've been struggling with trying to select a new password manager to migrate from one I adopted a few years ago. I am happy to type uid's and pwd's.
The reason I want to migrate is that what I've been using used to have no cloud storage component at all. You could synchronize your devices over your local network and that was that. I never wanted any of this data on the cloud. Well, these guys decided to --without giving users a choice-- migrate data to the cloud.
As issues with the top password managers have come up from time to time on HN I have hesitated to migrate to any of them. Frankly, it's confusing.
All I want is secure encrypted LOCAL password and data storage. This includes typical password type applications but there are other bits of data one might want to store, for example, your passport number, company legal information, etc.
I don't want any of this data on the cloud. Nobody wants to wake up to a data breach that could potentially expose your data for hundreds of websites. Every single one of my logins is different, this would be a nightmare scenario. If the data isn't in the cloud the likelihood of that nightmare breach is reduced exponentially.
Any recommendations?
- wazanator 10y agoI know one of the KeePass apps has an option to have an offline only mode and I want to say you can even set it up to use your own sftp server for transferring the encrypted file containing passwords between devices.
- paulryanrogers 10y agoKeePass2Android Offline Their online version also supports self hosted services
- zeroer 10y agoI feel the same way you do. I couldn't find a commercial product that I liked. I'm on OS X, and I made an encrypted disk image that holds a plain text file with login credentials and important numbers/info. I made a couple AppleScript scripts that will open the file upon entering the decryption password, and then automatically dismount the disk after a certain amount of time (because I often forget to). I backup my password file by periodically emailing the encrypted container to myself. It's not sexy or slick, but it works for me.
- bradknowles 10y ago1Password does local-only storage by default. You have to explicitly enable cloud storage if you want that. If you want to sync passwords from your local storage to another local device, you can use LAN sync mode for that purpose.