I’m using KeePass currently, since I don’t really want to use anything publicly hosted. But I was curious to see what other people have been using!

  • MeowKittyWow@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Maybe a tangent, but what are the security implications of a password manager? It seems like it would replace many individual things that can go kinda wrong with one big single point of failure, which frightens me 😆

    Happy to be wrong though. They definitely seem convenient.

    • honk@feddit.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      You have a point there. But if you use a password manager with strong encryption, 2fa etc. you can minimize the risk somewhat. I came to the conclusion that the benefits of using extremely long, secure passwords outweigh the risks if you follow all the best practices. Plus the added comfort.

    • Rixonomic@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      This line of reasoning kept me away from password managers for a while, but I’ve been using Bitwarden for almost a year now, and I could never go back.

      You’re technically right, but a better way to look at it is that it reduces your surface of attack from many weak points, down to one, very strong and secure point (assuming you use a reasonably strong password for your vault, and don’t log into your vault on public networks or anything like that).

      But at the end of the day, using a password manager is vastly superior to relying on your memory, which is what many people still do.