Ask HN: What password manager tools do you use or recommend?

A notebook or a folded up sheet of paper with hints you need to remind you of your passwords but not explicitly stated. Completely invulnerable to security flaws, it's only breachable by physical access.

Re: Ask HN: What password manager tools do you use or recommend?

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Post by jppope » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

I use mnemonic devices (Rhymes, non-wester geography, latin or greek history), with really long strings: (https://xkcd.com/936/) The system works pretty well. Zero password reuse. Always Remember, Can't be compromised with a password manager... the problem is the companies and their poor security! (LinkedIn, Experian)

I'm really looking forward to the days when we don't have passwords anymore.

NOTE: And they said I would never use Latin!

Re: Ask HN: What password manager tools do you use or recommend?

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Post by kevinherron » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 10:47 PM UTC

I use 1password right now. It's really nice.

If I were starting over I'd give pass and its various open source UIs/apps a chance: https://www.passwordstore.org

Re: Ask HN: What password manager tools do you use or recommend?

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Post by toyg » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC

BitWarden has come a long way and now it does everything I need: iOs integration (in ios12), Android, extensions for all browsers, and even the (fairly pointless but customary in 2018) electron-based desktop app. It’s even opensource, so one could host a private instance - which I’d be keen to do if it weren’t based on the annoying Microsoft stack.

The only feature I miss is the little gamification that LastPass has, where you can check how many of your credentials had the same details - lowering that score day by day was a nice challenge. I was tempted to build it myself (BW has an API too) but not got around it yet.

Re: Ask HN: What password manager tools do you use or recommend?

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Post by cutety » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 12:25 AM UTC

toyg wrote: post #9

BitWarden has come a long way and now it does everything I need: iOs integration (in ios12), Android, extensions for all browsers, and even the (fairly pointless but customary in 2018) electron-based desktop app. It’s even opensource, so one could host a private instance - which I’d be keen to do if it weren’t based on the annoying Microsoft stack. The only feature I miss is the little gamification that LastPass has,…

Seconding BitWarden. It’s the only open source/self host able password manager I could find that provides all the features that I wanted from closed source/hosted password managers (1pass/lastpass). The chrome extension and iOS app are great, have auto fill support unlike some other open source password managers (KeeWeb).

Self hosting it is super easy to setup, they just give you a docker compose file, and a few commands later it’s ready to go. It’s also fairly easy to modify the compose file to deploy it to a Docker Swarm cluster, which is how I have mine setup.