Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by talson » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by Shinobuu » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:19 PM UTC

LastPass, https://lastpass.com/

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by Witeshadow » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

I am trying to decide between LastPass, Bitwarden and KeePassXC. 99% of passwords in LastPass as I've used it for many years but all my passwords for my most recent job are in KeePassXC (plus some others) and BitWarden beats them both in terms of a few security features (such as 2FA options), plus is cheaper than LastPass.

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by recrudesce » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 1:42 PM UTC

Enpass.io, currently, as it allows me to keep my password vault on my own server, and it also allows me to access my passwords from anywhere the app is installed.

I moved to Enpass from Lastpass.

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by highhedgehog » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 3:02 PM UTC

Go with Bitwarden and never look back. Avoid LastPass

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by runjake » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

1Password.

Formerly, I used LastPass but they had a series of many bumblings[1] and I lost confidence in them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by Witeshadow » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

recrudesce wrote: post #4

Enpass.io, currently, as it allows me to keep my password vault on my own server, and it also allows me to access my passwords from anywhere the app is installed. I moved to Enpass from Lastpass.

I've not heard of enpass.io. What are the strengths and are there well researched reviews / security evaluations?

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by Meph504 » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

highhedgehog wrote: post #5

Go with Bitwarden and never look back. Avoid LastPass

Bitwarden is nice for personal use, but after a failed implementation at our company, and their frankly horrible support. We ended up canceling the whole thing and going back to the market to find new options.

Biggest beef with bitwarden, aside from a frankly odd pricing structure, is "shared contacts" which aren't shared, if you "share" a contact, you transfer it to control of the group you shared it with, and then its shared with you.

this means the contact is no longer backed up when you make a backup, and if it is removed from the group you shared it with, you loose it forever, and don't have a backed up version to restore.

I'm hoping they fix this, and get more than 1 person to handle their tech support.

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you use?

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Post by deadbacon » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

Bitwarden because it's open source and has completed Third-party Security Audit

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Post by sethammons » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

deadbacon wrote: post #9

Bitwarden because it's open source and has completed Third-party Security Audit

I'm also a fan of bitwarden. I did keepass for years synced over dropbox. Now I do self-hosted bitwarden on digtial ocean. I have yet to fix one issue due to lack of time. I'm using caddy2 to route incoming connections, but the default bitwarden setup for creating a certificate does not expect to be behind something else that already sets up a certificate. Some folks have given me ideas on how to fix it, but I've been too lazy and instead manually update the cert once every couple months. I've only had to do it twice so far. If it gets to be a pain when I go to fix it, I'll just go to the hosted solution.