Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by egamirorrim » Sun, May 07, 2023, 5:51 AM UTC

Enpass ftw, clients for all platforms, browser extensions and lets me backup to my own NAS/Dropbox/Gdrive

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by number6 » Sun, May 07, 2023, 7:14 AM UTC

mikece wrote: post #2

For cloud-synched across devices: BitWarden. For maximum security (no cloud sync): KeePassXC In both cases an essential feature applies: if you forget your master password you've lost access to your password database.

Use Vaultwarden and self host the backend

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by Hamuko » Sun, May 07, 2023, 7:51 AM UTC

connordoner wrote: post #42

Hamuko wrote: post #15

I use Secrets ( https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac/ ) which syncs via iCloud. Definitely not perfect, especially if you're not heavily within the Apple ecosystem, but at least it's native and doesn't require a subscription.

Is there a compelling reason to use this over iCloud Keychain?

Does iCloud Keychain really have support for anything other than Safari?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by JenrHywy » Sun, May 07, 2023, 8:30 AM UTC

blitz wrote: post #20

Self-hosted Bitwarden via Vaultwarden

Bitwarden is also quite family friendly, both in that it's easy to use and you can share passwords with other people.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by aborsy » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:39 AM UTC

The most secure option is probably Password Store with a PGP key on Yubikey, in my view.

There is also Passage, which is a similar offering, but I have problems with Yubikey PIV PIN caching (and prefer CV25519 to NIST curves).

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by aborsy » Sun, May 07, 2023, 10:51 AM UTC

Ferret7446 wrote: post #51

VoodooJuJu wrote: post #37

pass, the standard unix password manager: https://www.passwordstore.org/

pass has issues: https://rot256.dev/post/pass/ This is very much a case of "don't invent your own cryptosystem", especially not in bash.

PGP has a kind of authentication called MDC which is kind of a MAC. Changes to ciphertext are detected.

The metadata leakage is not good from a privacy standpoint, but brings about much more important security benefits that are mentioned in the post. Using Gopass will hide metadata.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by tdsanchez » Sun, May 07, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

billy_bitchtits wrote: post #3

1password

I came here to say this.

I've used 1password for 16 years and it is SOLID.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by 0x008 » Sun, May 07, 2023, 3:23 PM UTC

billy_bitchtits wrote: post #3

1password

1password has a great UI imo. and they now support ssh keys as well (albeit a bit strangely, but at least they do).

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by johnofthesea » Sun, May 07, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC

Hamuko wrote: post #63

connordoner wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a compelling reason to use this over iCloud Keychain?

Does iCloud Keychain really have support for anything other than Safari?

I use it everywhere on ios and macos except maybe for my second browser (firefox)

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Post by evantbyrne » Sun, May 07, 2023, 4:16 PM UTC

Hamuko wrote: post #15

I use Secrets ( https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac/ ) which syncs via iCloud. Definitely not perfect, especially if you're not heavily within the Apple ecosystem, but at least it's native and doesn't require a subscription.

Do you have to pay separately for the mac and ios versions?