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Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#31

I'm all in on Bitwarden at this point. It's the place where I keep all my credit cards, secure notes and about a 500 logins. A vast majority of these logins have passwords generated by Bitwarden itself. I'm confident even if BW goes down I can still recover my data since the vault works offline too. While the browser extension could use some UX work the mobile apps have been top-notch and sharing passwords with my sp…

Please document your migration (and backup strategy!)

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#32

KeepassXC for password management and Syncthing for syncing across devices. Everything I'd available offline and syncs on network availability. Working well for years now.

My setup too. However, this year I would like to give a go to self hosted Bitwarden in a RaspberryPi. Just for the satisfaction of it.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#33

I still use KeePassXC and sync with cron jobs to Chroot SFTP-Only servers wrapped in a further encrypted file, then conversely use cron to pull the file to devices. I do not personally foresee ever using any of the commercial solutions. I also use this to sync bookmarks. If KeePassXC one day becomes unmaintained I will make my own custom tool, probably using sqlite+openssl+bash. I only log into one semi-sensitive thi…

How do you avoid merge conflicts? Do you only ever edit your KeePassXC files on one machine?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#34
post #9

I use - and pay for - BitWarden. It does all the things you ask for. With the paid version I can share passwords with my spouse for relatively unimportant things (like Netflix) in a reasonably secure manner. I could self host and run it myself. But I'm not a multi-person team with decades of security engineering experience. So I gladly let someone else take on that burden.

You don't need to be a multi-person team or have a lot of security experience to host Bitwarden. I'm very positive Bitwarden won't get hungry for money looking at their revenue models, but there's always Vaultwarden you can self host. It's pretty popular and secure. I'll be deploying soon for myself.

Without a security background, it’s hard to evaluate whether what you are doing is secure or not. You don’t know what you don’t know; unknown unknowns etc

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#35

I use 1Password. It isn't perfect, but it's quite good. My big goal now is to come up with a better solution for 2FA that works for me and my wife's shared accounts.

1Password with shared vaults and OTP fields works well for this.

I understand the idea of putting both factors in one place is odd, but I feel it strikes the right balance between the convenience and security.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#36
post #20

One of my major goals for 2023 is to migrate as much as feasible from passwords to tokens or at least passkeys. NitroKeys or YubiKeys for that. Process has already begun, but I definitely hope to see that accelerate big time (at long, long last) this year. Feels like there is serious industry momentum from the big players this time, and that cost, UX, support in frameworks to make it easy for non-sec webdevs, may all…

I have over 1,000 logins in Bitwarden. I got a new Yubikey last year and found maybe a dozen sites which support it.

I hope this is the year that WebAuthN goes mainstream - but it'll be a long time before a plurality of sites support it.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#37

I'm all in on Bitwarden at this point. It's the place where I keep all my credit cards, secure notes and about a 500 logins. A vast majority of these logins have passwords generated by Bitwarden itself. I'm confident even if BW goes down I can still recover my data since the vault works offline too. While the browser extension could use some UX work the mobile apps have been top-notch and sharing passwords with my sp…

Please document your migration (and backup strategy!)

Sure. When I do the migration, I will come back to this and keep you posted!

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

#39
I've been using and paying for Bitwarden for almost two years now. However recently I purchased a Raspberry Pi, so now I've completely shifted to self-hosting Bitwarden (using Vaultwarden[0]) on it. On top of it, I've attached a custom subdomain to the server through Cloudflare Tunnel, so even behind non-static IP address it works well (with SSL).

No privacy or security issues now since I own all my data, no subscription fees, and no complaints till now with the self-hosted setup. Definitely would recommend!

[0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

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