It's full of shills every time there's an article about password managers. I wonder if they come from LastPass or 1Password.
Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
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Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#72I'm using KeepassXC on desktop, Keepass2Android on mobile and Dropbox for syncing the database and I'm quite happy with it. Bitwarden looks a bit more polished, but are there any other advantages over Keepass?
Check also KeePass Dx for Android, it has some nice features like Fingerprint for fast unlocking, AutoFill and a nicer Material Theme.
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#73I love bitwarden, and have converted to it. However i just learned about https://passman.cc/ Has anyone used that?
Yes, I'm using it currently and have for over a year. It works well enough.
However; The mobile apps haven't shown progress in over a year. Development on the main app is very slow. The browser extensions work, but do have minor quirks.
Honestly it feels like a dead project, It's not but it's lacking in resources and the devs are lacking in time from what I've been able to gather from the issue tracker. https://github.com/nextcloud/passman/issues I do sometimes worry I'm one nextcloud update away from losing access to my passwords as a recent one did mess with the interface a bit, it's still functional but some ui elements are mis-aligned.
I've been considering switching to bitwarden for a while, It's interface is much nicer, and more polished. I've mostly been waiting for one of the alternative API implementations to mature a bit, because I don't want to have to run a big honking MS-SQL container on my little VPS. I'm also going to have to write my own importer, or mangle the data a bit because the cvs format for passman isn't compatible with any of the import formats for bitwarden.
Or maybe I'll just give up and migrate to pass or gopass(https://www.gopass.pw/) worth looking at if you like pass). I think I want too much from my password manager =/
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#74For years I've discouraged use of clouds for storing passwords. But because Bitwarden is FOSS software, encrypts data on the client, has good cross-platform support, and can operate if the company goes out of business they have won me over for the storage of secrets I'm not reserving for the sneakernet.
Last time I checked Bitwarden was not encrypting data on the client. Did that change? Also, OSS does not mean secure. Without audits from security experts, I can’t trust it. Bitwarden is objectivity less secure than 1Password or Keepass actually, at the very least because it doesn’t have a desktop application.
Your right in the aspect that OSS does not mean secure... don't agree with the down-votes here.
OSS can often mean less secure. Unless you have the capabilities to fully audit the software you shouldn't fully trust OSS... unless it has an external audit.
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#75Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#76If somebody wrote code to let me send the second factor from a nominated device as my banks use of Symantec technology does.. it would be cool: I keep meaning to remind myself having the second factor inside 1password is not a second independent factor.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#77I switched from LastPass to bitwarden in November, and I love it.
- it's FOSS, and audited, so it's software I can trust
- great UX on Firefox, chrome, and even Edge. I had my issues, but the project improved them away very quickly.
- sharing support for families or organizations.
- convenient standalone clients for win/Mac/Linux... And even the CLI.
- built in 2FA code generation for each entry, so I don't need a separate app for that.
- the best autofill I've experienced, on desktop browser and even on mobile(!)
- open API so there are third party clients available
- the lead developer is super responsive on GH, so I've been able to contribute.
- cheaper than the alternatives (at least at the time), and I feel good about where my money is going.
I can't recommend it strongly enough. It's one of the OSS applications that has a permanent place on all my devices, right up there with Firefox quantum in my "great examples of OSS" liste.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#78There are also two Bitwarden-compatible API implementations in Rust[0] and Ruby[1]. Their main advantage, IMO, is them doing away with the requirement of Microsoft SQL Server. [0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs [1] https://github.com/jcs/bitwarden-ruby
This is great ammo for answering when anyone asks why Bitwarden (or OSS in general) is better than LastPass or 1passsword...
I thought it was very cool of Kyle, the Bitwarden dev, to give Joshua, the Ruby dev, a heads up about breaking API changes ahead of time.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#79https://github.com/bitwarden/core/blob/master/README.md
SQL Server 2017, really? Interesting choice. Open source but we have to pay licenses for the database if we want to self host. I wonder what was wrong with PostgreSQL or MySQL even if they're using .NET Core as a language.
Edit: there is an issue for that https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/10
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#80https://github.com/bitwarden/core/blob/master/README.md SQL Server 2017, really? Interesting choice. Open source but we have to pay licenses for the database if we want to self host. I wonder what was wrong with PostgreSQL or MySQL even if they're using .NET Core as a language. Edit: there is an issue for that https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/10
Ah shit, its a . NET program :(
It all sounded really good until this point. I was even going to say you could add support for postgres, but I don't know a lot of open source devs who are using. NET.