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Re: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Post by Aaron_NW »

I think you are going to run into a lot of anxiety about data loss. I did find the recovery code and peer to peer sync notes, which help.

Most people are not going to think through where to store an encrypted folder on a share so that there is a backup. If you are targeting just tech forward users that's probably okay, but for larger usage, you might think about full disaster recovery case where a computer and phone are both lost, as well as how to make it easy on where a copy is always stored or sync'd so users don't have to worry.

Re: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Post by MegagramEnjoyer »

ngsevers wrote: post #49

Is there a recovery path, like an encrypted export or recovery file; say phone stolen, laptop dies, etc.., or is the vault only as durable as my most reliable device?

The latest browser extensions now have an export feature in the settings page. Mobile will get it too. Besides that, the more devices are synced via P2P, the more backups you have (each device has a copy of the vault)

Re: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Post by MegagramEnjoyer »

Aaron_NW wrote: post #51

I think you are going to run into a lot of anxiety about data loss. I did find the recovery code and peer to peer sync notes, which help. Most people are not going to think through where to store an encrypted folder on a share so that there is a backup. If you are targeting just tech forward users that's probably okay, but for larger usage, you might think about full disaster recovery case where a computer and phone…

Yeah, fair assessment. I will add a section and more copy to the app to address this concern. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Post by MegagramEnjoyer »

HN-user2345 wrote: post #50

i think this is a great Idea but it doesnt beat any of the other free password managers like keepass.. I support this Idea tho and ill check on it to see where youve gotten! i usually just use keepassDX on my phone and keepassXC on my pc to create a local encrypted database file that i sync through MEGA sync which creates another level of encryption and i have 3 ways to get my password back if i lost them ( the datab…

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Re: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Post by Aaron_NW »

MegagramEnjoyer wrote: post #53
Aaron_NW wrote: post #51

I think you are going to run into a lot of anxiety about data loss. I did find the recovery code and peer to peer sync notes, which help. Most people are not going to think through where to store an encrypted folder on a share so that there is a backup. If you are targeting just tech forward users that's probably okay, but for larger usage, you might think about full disaster recovery case where a computer and phone…

Yeah, fair assessment. I will add a section and more copy to the app to address this concern. Thanks!

Love the idea. It is great to innovate in this space. That adjustment will help.

Re: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Post by sandeepkd »

MegagramEnjoyer wrote: post #3
hoistbypetard wrote: post #2

> TL;DR: I dislike private-equity and venture funded companies messing with our security, so I created my own Password Manager which is local-first, free, open source and as transparent as it gets. I do too! And I appreciate your transparency about the vibe coding. But nowhere in the repository that I've found so far do you say who is writing this. For something like a password manager, I kind of need to know who's r…

Fair enough. I like staying pseudonymous on the internet, but I also understand where you're coming from. My name is Doug, based in Toronto, Canada. I've been a software engineer for over 10 years, working in various startups that handle very sensitive data (fintech, health tech, legal tech.) I've had the opportunity to build security-heavy software and directly handled sensitive info like SIN, bank details, patient…

The sync part seems like a tricky one and a potential issue over the time, in the absence of a central server? From security perspective it always feel like a compromise if you are replicating the private key for any asymmetric algorithm

Re: Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Post by Saris »

ZenoArrow wrote: post #27

What does this offer over other local-first password managers? For example, there are a fair few Android/iOS apps based on KeePass (I currently use https://www.keepassdx.com on my Android phone).

The Keepass options for browser autofill are pretty rough, and don't work with flatpak installed apps either.

Keepass also can't match URLs with Regex which is something I make use of in bitwarden.

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