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Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by ckozlowski »

kapep wrote: post #89
silversmith wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using keepass, and the sync does not seem to be hassle - my file lives in dropbox, and it's always been synced before I open the app on another device. Bonus - backing up the database is as easy as copy-pasting a file.

For anyone who wants to avoid storing the Keepass database in the cloud store I can recommend Syncthing. For extra security I use a key file in addition to a password which I manually transfer between devices.

I'm glad to read this, as I hit upon a similar solution for my own password store. My Keepass DB lives in Dropbox, but my key file does not. If I want to open it (along with password) on a device, I manually install the key.

I'm sure I forgo some convenience by not having field auto-populate all of the time (Keepass can do some of this, but I haven't had it work reliably), but I relax knowing I need not worry about a third-party service being hacked or my credentials being behind a paywall.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by jacooper »

throwaway2990 wrote: post #107
cebert wrote: post #100

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It’s a great way to get further locked into Apple’s ecosystem. Good luck if you ever need to move to an alternative platform.

Good luck ever having a better alternative platform to move to.

Oh there are so many.

Especially ones better than MacOS.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by crossroadsguy »

uoaei wrote: post #85
monlockandkey wrote: post #68

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Hopefully VC never ever touch Hackernews... :)

Hacker News is essentially a marketing and legitimization arm of a VC firm. The community around it is the value. They know what happens if they try to change it.

> They know what happens if they try to change it.

Nothing. Nothing of consequence; either way. You know, maybe that’s why?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by coder543 »

toyg wrote: post #160
luczsoma wrote: post #87

1Password is miles ahead. Its UX is WAY better, as is its cryptography architecture and its security whitepaper ( https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p... ). Bitwarden doesn’t even come close.

It lacks the one feature most of the world cares about, though: support for Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onepasswor...

What are you talking about?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by toomuchtodo »

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...

I hope to be moved over to passkeys before the password manager enshitification begins in earnest.

https://passkeys.directory/

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by kstrauser »

oooyay wrote: post #105
louthy wrote: post #90

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> The new CEO concerns me. I didn't know who the founder was but I always had the impression it was a lone hacker. They passed the baton. Now it's some old Web 1.0 guy who was the CEO of eFax in the 90's. This sounds like ageism to me. I don't know if this guy is any good or not, but calling out someone as a 'concern' just because they were successful in the past isn't a good look. Is there anything more substantive…

I've never heard "web 1.0 guy" as a pejorative, on top of what you said. For the curious, Michael Crandell is the CEO and he founded Right Scale in 2007 which exited in 2018 with 250 employees. He was EVP at eFax in the early aughts, which would have been somewhere in his twenties. He's a Stanford and Harvard graduate as well as a self-taught programmer in assembly. Here's an interview with him: https://medium.com/au…

I’m with you on all that. Web 1.0… so he has a fundamental understanding of how the Internet works? And was successful before blockchain nonsense came around? Sounds like good qualifications to me.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by poisonborz »

e12e wrote: post #202
poisonborz wrote: post #47

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

I'm not sure I follow - both the server and clients (with exception of one web app) is FOSS already? AGPL/GPL 3?

For now. It would be great if the client part would have a fork with an OS maintainer as well, who merges upstream changes but would also add features the corporate entity wouldn't want to do do. Vaultwarden is much much easier to selfhost for example.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by ZuLuuuuuu »

Do any companies use Bitwarden? Are they satisfied with it?

We tried using Keepass but people were resistant to using it. The UI is not very user-friendly for non-technical people.

Keepass also lacks some of the features we would like to have, for example: We would like to push a new user/password to a person's vault (for example let's say IT creates a printer account for a person, we would like to put the account information to the relevant person's vault), or we would like to share a common password among a group of people.

But I am not sure if Bitwarden is a good choice in practice for this kind of things.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by kstrauser »

throwawaaarrgh wrote: post #98
alt227 wrote: post #92

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Unfortunately 1Password doesnt have the main feature that most of us are probably using bitwarden for, self hosting. EDIT: I have just noticed this. Everyone whos interest should submit! https://survey.1password.com/self-host/

and 1Password doesn't work from behind corp proxies with custom traffic inspection certs

We added a steering exception to our Netskope setup for 1Password. All the traffic going there is encrypted twice anyway, once by the app and again my TLS, so inspection doesn’t show you anything interesting.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by mptest »

StevePerkins wrote: post #194
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...

FYI - Your two primary alternatives are LastPass and 1Password. The former of which is melting down due to security flaws, and the latter has raised roughly $1B in VC money: https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/1password-series-c-funding... At a certain point, you just have to live your life. To accept that products you use might change in the future, and you might need to migrate to something else down the road. The al…

I've found ProtonPass to be useful. Depending on how you feel about the proton ecosystem. I don't know how much VC money they've taken though.
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