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In the post the writer mentions Keypass being the worlds best password manager and I see a lot of similar love here. Has Keypass improved a lot in recent years

In the post the writer mentions Keypass being the worlds best password manager and I see a lot of similar love here. Has Keypass improved a lot in recent years. I always found it incredibly clunky and ugly and getting it to work with browsers a real pain. Bitwarden seems like a steal at 10 bucks a year and avoids the stress of trying to self hoist the keys to the kingdom myself. But I see such love for Keypass and wonder.

joshuaissac 5y ago
I think you may have intended to post this comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658936 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635676 rather than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30663266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30663266
- aftergibson 5y ago
  No my bad I clarified in my comment but it was in response to the author claiming Keypass as the worlds best password manager. Thanks for the links though.
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mackrevinack 5y ago
i used bitwarden for about a year and i like how simpler it was compared to lastpass and i recommend that to most people now. the reason i switched to keepass was i wanted to use autofill desktop passwords as well. ive mainly been using keepassxc for a few years which is not too ugly i don't think, but have been trying out keeweb recently which is a lot more minimal. a neat feature with keepass is autotype. i have mine set to alt+x so its easy to activate and using the "add url to window title" extension means there's no connection between your vault and the browser. https://github.com/erichgoldman/add-url-to-window-title https://github.com/erichgoldman/add-url-to-window-title another idea i had recently was to create a second vault for passwords that aren't that important. so now they majority of my passwords are in that and the vault master password is shorter so its quicker to type, while anything important goes in my main vault which has a stronger password. its great not having to type a really long password just to unlock my vault so i can log into some random forum! and it also means im less paranoid about leaving the vault unlocked. (when the autotype list pops up you will see sites from both vaults, as long as they are unlocked) so yea, there's a few things that keepass does that other don't, but the downside like you said is having to manage the file yourself. i already had synching set up on all of my devices anyway so it was trival to sync the file using that

joshuaissac 5y ago

I think you may have intended to post this comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658936 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635676 rather than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30663266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30663266

aftergibson 5y ago
No my bad I clarified in my comment but it was in response to the author claiming Keypass as the worlds best password manager. Thanks for the links though.

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mackrevinack 5y ago

i used bitwarden for about a year and i like how simpler it was compared to lastpass and i recommend that to most people now. the reason i switched to keepass was i wanted to use autofill desktop passwords as well. ive mainly been using keepassxc for a few years which is not too ugly i don't think, but have been trying out keeweb recently which is a lot more minimal. a neat feature with keepass is autotype. i have mine set to alt+x so its easy to activate and using the "add url to window title" extension means there's no connection between your vault and the browser. https://github.com/erichgoldman/add-url-to-window-title https://github.com/erichgoldman/add-url-to-window-title another idea i had recently was to create a second vault for passwords that aren't that important. so now they majority of my passwords are in that and the vault master password is shorter so its quicker to type, while anything important goes in my main vault which has a stronger password. its great not having to type a really long password just to unlock my vault so i can log into some random forum! and it also means im less paranoid about leaving the vault unlocked. (when the autotype list pops up you will see sites from both vaults, as long as they are unlocked) so yea, there's a few things that keepass does that other don't, but the downside like you said is having to manage the file yourself. i already had synching set up on all of my devices anyway so it was trival to sync the file using that