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Bitwarden - open source password manager
I've been looking for open source password managers and came across Bitwarden (https://bitwarden.com). I would love to hear your opinions about it (if there are any users here).
- alexdee 9y agoI don't feel safe if my passwords data is stored in the US. I prefer to use KeePass (open source) + Cloud storage from Swiss. For a long time Swiss was out of the EU-US Privacy Shield and was advised as #1 country for storing your personal data. But this January Swiss and US finalized their agreement (http://www.alstonprivacy.com/swiss-u-s-privacy-shield-finalized/ http://www.alstonprivacy.com/swiss-u-s-privacy-shield-finali...).
- haikkonen 9y agoCan you share the name of that cloud storage company in Switzerland?
- alexdee 9y agoSure thing, it's pCloud (https://www.pcloud.com/ https://www.pcloud.com/)
- kerokero 9y agoWhat do you use now then?
- alexdee 9y agoActually I was wrong about the Privacy Shield. It's actually not a bad thing. I did confuse it with The Fourteen Eyes (https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/#ukusa https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/#ukusa). My bad! I still use KeePass (KeeWeb on laptop) + pCloud.
- mcnesium 9y agoWhat's wrong with passwordstore.org? It's not a service which I am giving my stuff, but just some handy script sitting on top of well-known distribution and security software. Plus tools and plugins for all the clients. There is no need for anything else than that.
- wuch 9y agoA few things I didn't like about pass: * It does not encrypt metadata. * It performs delayed clipboard clearing instead of preventing further coping after first use, which is technically possible to implement, though I am not aware of any small standalone tool that does something like that. * If you don't have something like YubiKey, password protection of gpg private key is not particularly impressive compared to the state of art.
- dmix 9y agoI recently came across a `pass` competitor called `freepass` built with Rust ontop of libsodium: https://github.com/myfreeweb/freepass https://github.com/myfreeweb/freepass `pass` is my current favourite, the Android app works fine and syncing text files is easy. But I'm looking forward to trying `freepass` out. The interface looks nice in the asciicinema animation in the README, a Quicksilver/spotlight style floating window. BitWarden looks too heavy-duty for me.
- iamatworknow 9y agoI was very disappointed with the direction LastPass has taken since its acquisition by LogMeIn, mostly because the UI was becoming progressively worse. I've been using BitWarden for about a month or two now and while the workflow is a bit different, it works as well as I could hope.
- jefecoon 9y agoI've been using Bitwarden a couple months now and can only speak highly. We'll see how it's security audits & stands the test of time, but so far so good for me.
- equalunique 9y agoI already have a password manager. It's my brain.
- rl3 9y ago>I already have a password manager. It's my brain. For those of us without eidetic memory that have to manage a large number of credentials, password managers tend to be the only viable solution.
- stevekemp 9y agoBecause I use `pass` my passwords are easily stored under revision control with git. I wrote a simple script to show me the age of various passwords. When I realized I'd not changed some passwords for over two years I was surprised. With your "brain" do you remember to update passwords every few years? And remember the new one easily?
- earenndil 9y agoI like password store and keepass.