I was creating my own standalone hardware password manager: https://github.com/jareklupinski/zamek
Looking for inspiration and excited testers :)
Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?
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#82Bitwarden can be self-hosted. $10/year subscription cost is well, well worth it. If you don't self-host, note that everything is encrypted before being stored at bitwarden. They don't have access to your passwords.
Bitwarden is just as user-hostile. They go out of their way to make it harder to own your data, when it should just be local-first vaults. Import/export is irrelevant. I want to own my data, not just be able to check out a copy whenever I want.
How so? It's easy to run vault warden if you want local, and their android app supports connecting to your local vault warden. You can also export your data.
How could they be less user-hostile?
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I use Bitwarden, but the lack of auto type on Desktop as well as the limited selection of symbols of the password generator annoys me a lot
Re: lack of autofill (at least for the browser extension), Ctrl-Shfit-L will fill in forms with the top candidate. Not quite autofill, but I find it faster than clicking.
I am speaking for the desktop application which can't auto fill/ auto type in different applications such as Element
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#84I use pass. It's a Unix-style password manager created by zx2c4 of Wireguard fame. https://www.passwordstore.org/ Pass uses GPG under the hood for encrypting the password store. I use an OpenPGP smartcard (a Yubikey in my case) to decrypt the password files. I synchronize the store across devices using Git. There are good autofill implementations for Firefox and for Android. When I need a password, the autofill promp…
There is Browserpass extension for Chromium as well.
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What symbols do you want? Kanji and Russian Cyrillic also? The limited subset is that they're easily typeable on a normal English keyboard without having to resort to on-screen keyboards or alt sequences.
from KeePass at least: - Upper-case - Lower-case - Digits - Minus - Underline - Special - Brackets
In the Bitwarden password generator you can use uppercase, lowercase letters, digits and !@#$%^&*. Is the lack of brackets or a minus really an issue for you?
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+1 Bitwarden. I wish they dog fooded more so they can see how bad their browser extension is though.
On firefox, their browser extension is excellent for me; what issues do you have?
I use FF too.
Common problems are:
1a/ If I am trying to transfer money between two banks, a Plaid iframe pops up requesting the credentials of another bank's website. Since the bank's credentials are typically configured on another domain, you need to search for it, copy the username, paste the username, then re-search, copy the password, paste the password. I wish the drop down had more 'memory'.
1b/ Similar problem of needing to re-search to get the password if I am trying to copy and paste username and password for a desktop app where it doesn't auto-detect a domain.
2/ When registering on a new website, its 3 clicks to generate a new password for the form. Why can't there just be an auto-fill with a fresh unique password like iOS offers? If the website rejects the password (for being too long or invalid characters), its 4 clicks to create a new one.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bitwarden is just as user-hostile. They go out of their way to make it harder to own your data, when it should just be local-first vaults. Import/export is irrelevant. I want to own my data, not just be able to check out a copy whenever I want.
How so? It's easy to run vault warden if you want local, and their android app supports connecting to your local vault warden. You can also export your data. How could they be less user-hostile?
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+1 Bitwarden. I wish they dog fooded more so they can see how bad their browser extension is though.
How come? Seems to work pretty well for me. Better than LastPass/Dashlane worked for me in the past.
responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800139
Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bitwarden is just as user-hostile. They go out of their way to make it harder to own your data, when it should just be local-first vaults. Import/export is irrelevant. I want to own my data, not just be able to check out a copy whenever I want.
How so? It's easy to run vault warden if you want local, and their android app supports connecting to your local vault warden. You can also export your data. How could they be less user-hostile?
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Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?
#90I've used lastpass since 2016, it works for everything I need. Before that I struggled with Keepass and keeping it updated across all my various platforms, which I can only recommend if you use it from only a single location.