Comment on Bitwarden 100% price increase
Sunspear@piefed.social 15 hours agoThing is, a large percentage of internet-connected users might have two or more devices. The simplicity offered by a cloud (be it hosted or selfhosted) password manager is a huge benefit.
And unless you’re already running a syncthing-like service for something else, setting it up just for a password manager when other services provide it out of the box, is not worth the hassle usually.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Everyone has some kind of cloud service tho no? The database is encrypted so you can even sync it over googles cloud if you dont have nextcloud or syncthing.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ok, so I just need to keep track of my encryption keys (or have a second complex and secure password to memorize), manually decrypt my vault to use it, re-encrypt it when I’m done, and ensure I have good backups?
EZPZ /s
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
What? I think you dont know how this works. The database of a password manager is an encrypted file. When you open your password manager and type in the master password it opens that file and decrypts its contents for you and only saves it to memory. It doesnt actually decrypt the file on the drive. When you close the application it doesnt need to be encrypted again. This is exatly the same for all password managers, the only difference is that with web based ones the database sits on bitwardens server instead of on your harddrive.