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KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager

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Re: KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager

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I trust this over Bitwarden or Lastpass since you have to trust those services with your data (and I don't). Web-based password managers can be hacked, or have their login interface laced with third-party code that could be exfiltrating your master passphrase. My strategy is using KeePass and keeping multiple copies of the database in various cloud providers in case my local copy is lost/corrupted. It takes under a minute to sync my local copy to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc

Re: KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager

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I have been using KeePass with their official client on Windows and Strongbox (free tier) on both MacOS and iOS, and I synchronise via iCloud (previously via Google Drive). For me this solution has been working perfectly fine since many years now, and I am really not a technical user. I’m always surprised why not more people seem to use this solution (i.e. why password manager discussion is so common on HN)

Re: KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager

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post #3

I trust this over Bitwarden or Lastpass since you have to trust those services with your data (and I don't). Web-based password managers can be hacked, or have their login interface laced with third-party code that could be exfiltrating your master passphrase. My strategy is using KeePass and keeping multiple copies of the database in various cloud providers in case my local copy is lost/corrupted. It takes under a m…

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Re: KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager

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post #3

I trust this over Bitwarden or Lastpass since you have to trust those services with your data (and I don't). Web-based password managers can be hacked, or have their login interface laced with third-party code that could be exfiltrating your master passphrase. My strategy is using KeePass and keeping multiple copies of the database in various cloud providers in case my local copy is lost/corrupted. It takes under a m…

For the super paranoid, SyncThing provides a straightforward way for you to synchronise your database between various local devices without having any data in the cloud at all.

[edit: Syncthing's Discovery Server probably counts as data, actually; you can work around that but then it's less "straightforward"]

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