What is a really smart choice for password manager apps? Concerned about privacy and politically involved CEOs.

I’ve used:

  • LastPass
  • 1Password
  • ProtonPass (Now using)

I thought ProtonPass was a good choice but I’m starting to read more about it. What’s just a really solid choice all around, that you can feel good about? Free or paid.

  • Gayhitler@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Bitwarden.

    You know if you need more than that and if you’re asking on lemmy you don’t need more than that.

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        2 months ago

        I would recommend people not do that unless they know they need to and again, if you know you need to you’re not asking on lemmy.

        Hosting your own secrets not only puts the burden of protecting, providing access to and preserving the secrets entirely on you, but puts a very unique set of hosting goals squarely on you as well.

        Even a skilled administrator with significant resources at hand would often be better served by simply using bitwarden instead of hosting vaultwarden.

        An example I used in another thread about password managers was a disaster. When your local server is inoperable or destroyed and general local network failure makes your cloud accessible backup unreachable, can you access your secrets safely from a public computer at the fire department, church or refugee center?

        Bitwarden works well from public computers and there’s a whole guide for doing it as safely as possible on their website.

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      2 months ago

      It’s so much better since they updated the (IMO) ugly, dated UI design. It looks nice and fresh now. Bitwarden is the MVP.

  • ParlaMint@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 months ago

    There’s a lot of good things here to think about. I asked, there’s a lot of experience out there, and I appreciate all of it. Great community, here!

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    2 months ago

    I use KeepassXC which is free and open-source. The passwords are stored as an encrypted file on your own system. No servers or businesses involved.

    Personally I put mine in onedrive so it is synced between all of my devices though, so I guess there is still a server involved in that case

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    Been a Bitwarden user for several years now, both personal and deployed at multiple small businesses.

    It has been fantastic the whole time. Pricing is great, open source, runs on basically everything, and easy to use.

    KeypassXC if you’re uber-paranoid or a hardcore Stallmanite, otherwise, Bitwarden all day 100%

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    2 months ago

    Use KeepassXC with Syncthing for maximum autonomy or Bitwarden for maximum ease. Both are FOSS. That’s my recommendation and also seems to be the consensus among those who share your needs.

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    2 months ago

    No one has mentioned pwsafe, which was originally created by Bruce Schneier and is still maintained.

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    2 months ago

    I recommend Keepass. It’s freeware, is available on all platforms and supports biometrics (fingerprints, etc) on Android devices. It also encrypts the password file on your device, so you can keep a copy of that file on a cloud service without worrying if that service really respects your privacy or not.

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      2 months ago

      This is perhaps overkill, but you can also encrypt the contents of your online cloud storage with CryFS / Cryptomater. This is particularly useful if you wish to store sensitive documents (healthcare, finances etc) in a cloud environment in case of catastrophic destruction of property (destroying computers / on site backups of data).

      In this case you can also backup your keepass file in this encrypted virtual storage medium, on top of the prexisting encryption of the database itself.