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Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by rcxdude »

bad_user wrote: post #39

I wanted to like Bitwarden, due to its “open source” nature. But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's still miles and miles ahead. I tried teaching my father to use Bitwarden for the sole reason that it seemed to be translated into my native tongue. In his use, Bitwarden turned out to be co…

AFAIK the vaultwarden is just easier to set up for self-hosting. You can self-host the same server bitwarden use, but it's a lot more effort (unless they have stopped developing this recently).

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by notpushkin »

quaintdev wrote: post #40
notpushkin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Vauldwarden for my team passwords (for personal ones I have Password Store). Zero problems except when I had to migrate to another server and it didn't pick up the database from the Docker volume I restored the first time (although it's equally likely a Docker problem or me doing something wrong).

> it didn't pick up the database from the Docker volume I restored the first time This happened to me too. Moved to KepassXC with syncthing and I haven't looked back

KeePass is nice from my experience, but how well does it perform in a multi-user environment?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by tjrgergw »

I wish our industry would adopt the custom that to pitch your product you need to compare yourself to the best competitor, or no one will even look at you.

There's only one thing I wanna hear from Bitwarden: What do you do that KeePassXC doesn't, and what are the trade-offs?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by dsissitka »

nomercy400 wrote: post #2

I am a KeepassXC user, yet this sounds interesting. What does Bitwarden offer to make me want to switch?

It's been a few months since I've used Bitwarden but I can think of a couple things:

- Fewer people to trust. You have to be a little more careful with KeePass clients:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020196

- Templates. Bitwarden's implementation is pretty basic but the KeePass ecosystem is still sorting it out:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/8228

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by ghosty141 »

LinAGKar wrote: post #25
vincentkriek wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self hosting is incredibly easy with vaultwarden ( https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden )

That's a different implementation though

Theoretically yes but its comptible with the official cliente like the iOS app so it practically works the same.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by j1elo »

bad_user wrote: post #39

I wanted to like Bitwarden, due to its “open source” nature. But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's still miles and miles ahead. I tried teaching my father to use Bitwarden for the sole reason that it seemed to be translated into my native tongue. In his use, Bitwarden turned out to be co…

I'm a paying user because 1€/month is the perfect price for what I'd like a password manager to cost. But you're right and the flaws are there.

Before, I used LastPass, and for me, the form field detection was miles ahead. Not a tiny bit, but _a lot_ better. And the UI built on the ephemeral pop-up was a very bad idea that after years and years they haven't decided to ditch and do it the proper way on a new tab, like LastPass, uBlock Origin, o TreeStyleTabs do.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by poisonborz »

tiffanyh wrote: post #13

FYI - Bitwarden took $100M in VC money last year. At some point, the pressure to aggressively monetize will unfortunately happen. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/open-source-password-manag...

We would need a Vaultwarden-like project for the clients as well to have an OS fork. https://github.com/bitwarden/clients

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by vinckr »

aborsy wrote: post #22
Try1275 wrote: post #7

I am a happy user and find it very convenient but how safe is it really to have all your jewels centralized in the cloud, including 2FA. It seems such a worthwhile target. On the other hand keeping everything in sync manually seems a hassle and in the end you just encrypt on your machine and the syncing goes through the cloud anyway, so where's the difference? I'd be happy to hear thoughts on this.

The difference is that Bitwarden is webapp, thus serves you code in real time. The server could serve bad JavaScript to a particular user. You have to trust the server. Also, there is a chance of data breach. The 2FA and hardware keys are bypassed in this case. It’s all your master password.

>The 2FA and hardware keys are bypassed in this case. It’s all your master password.

Not sure I follow. When my master password is breached, attackers would still need to have my hardware key (which I obviously don't keep in the cloud), right?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by geekrax »

Since nobody has mentioned: iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma brings family sharing to password managerm. Sonoma also brings support for using native passwordsl manager in Chrome using a chrome extension developed by Apple.

For families who are hooked into Apple's ecosystem, this can provide a much better password management than third party tools.

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