3 ms·

Why are Dropbox and iCloud preferable to 1Password sync?

• wepple 5y ago
  I’m curious about this too. 1Password used to sync to a file that could be backed up to iCloud/Dropbox/drive and I wished they’d kept it that way, but it at least partially suggests they may have stuck with full client-side encryption (I have not verified)
  • thebean11 5y ago
    Yeah they still claim to have full client side encryption for the cloud service. Maybe it's the subscription pricing model that's the issue for people?
• torstenvl 5y ago
  Because they work at a standard level of abstraction (the file system) and can be replaced if necessary. I can replace Dropbox with Box or Syncthing or OwnCloud or rsync or sftp coupled with crontab or an FSEventsD monitor or whatever I want, at any time I want. 1Password's proprietary sync isn't open source and isn't open standards. It is designed to lock me into reliance on a company that has inarguably demonstrated that it hates its users.
  • firepacket 5y ago
    My password manager works just like this! It just monitors shared folders and keeps everything in a compressed/32k encoded XML file that you can open with a text editor. It's 1 file per vault, but multiple people can use the same vault and all are update simultaneously.