I’ve always hated the idea of using a subscription/cloud hosting for password management. I feel like I should have a LOT more control over that stuff and I don’t really want to hand all my keys over to a company.

All my secrets have been going in a highly encrypted archive with a long passphrase, but obviously that isn’t convenient on all devices. It’s been fine, I can open it on any computer but it’s not super quick. It does have the advantage of being able to put in multiple files, notes, private keys but it’s not ideal.

Anyway, finally found something that isn’t subscription, and has a similar philosophy - a highly encrypted archive file, and it’s open source and has heaps of clients including web browser plugins so it’s usable anywhere, and you can sync the vault with any file sync you like.

Thought you guys might appreciate the find, password managers have always been a bit of a catch 22 for me.

Note for android i found keepassxc the best app, and i’m using KeePassHelper browser plugin, and the KeePassXc desktop app as well as the free official one. Apps all seem to be cross platform.

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    1 year ago

    I like that KeePass has the option to set fields as protected

    Vaultwarden can do that, though its quite stiff in some aspects like folders… subfolders? nonexistant…

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      1 year ago

      Ah, I couldn't find that option.

      I can add custom fields to an entry but I can't designate them as "protected"

      Of course I also thought at first that you couldn't attach files but I guess you can, they just didn't seem to transfer over from my KeePass DB

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        1 year ago

        The interface is weird and unintuitive at times…
        I have a dropdown menu at the button "New custom field" and can select "Hidden".

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      1 year ago

      Folder/subfolders work just fine… when you make folder 'a'… you can add subfolder b by typing 'a/b'