Bitwarden all day every day. I don’t even know any of my passwords because they’re all randomly generated. Try to guess my password now hacker man
yup randomly generated 20+ digit passwords are the way to go
Is there a legitimate reason to use 20 characters over 16? Genuinely asking. Bitwarden considers them both “strong”, taking centuries to crack.
Well the more characters you have the higher the entropy of the password and the harder it would be to crack. So when you don’t have to remember the password yourself there’s no reason not to use a very long password if the service you’re using allows it.
Except no one cracks passwords. Vast majority of hacks is through social networking and trojans. The days of password cracking are long over especially considering most services lock you out after several failed attempts.
The main argument for using a password manager is so you can have a different password for every service. This way if they manage to obtain one password they can’t access everything.
It also makes rotating passwords a lot easier so that way you’re not using the same password forever. If your password gets out hopefully it’s changed before they use it.
Offline password cracking is still very much a thing. They steal the entire password database then crack it offline at their leisure, not live against the regular login.
Several measures are required to defend against this:
- Hash seeds defend against rainbow tables.
- Password length & complexity as well as using computationally-intensive hash algorithms defend against the brute-force cracking.
- Password managers help with length and complexity, sad well as promote not reusing passwords.
When possible I use passphrases with numbers added. Sadly my bank has a 16 character limit.
Time for a new bank.
Why? Do you know how long it takes to crack a 16 character password?
Password cracking isn’t really a thing anymore.
It’s probably… Um… 8#shJo9$f ?
Bitwarden didn’t work perfectly fine for me. Proton pass does.
I use Bitwarden!! It’s great cause I have a long complicated password to access the vault (my phone will do it by fingerprint though) but it’s the only password I need to actually memorize. Don’t know how someone can be secure without one nowadays, way too many services
KeePassXC here. Locally encrypted, Locally stored, cloud backup of an encrypted file, synced with SyncThing to mobile devices. I will never trust nor recommend a cloud based manager with all the breaches.
Yeah, KeePassXC + SyncThing all day every day. Can’t in good conscience trust someone else with my sensitive data, even if I encrypt it before it gets to their servers. My database is keys-to-the-kingdom level shit.
This is the way.
Oh yeah, someone, finally :D KeepassXC on PC, KeepassDX on Android, Syncthing for synchronization. I like when my password is just one file, that I can easily backup, not some cloud thing 🙂
This is the way.
Everyone should be using a password manager. Every service should have a different password (and some service should have several passwords) and it’s impossible for the average person to keep track of all of those. Every time I hear about someone losing control of an account it’s because they were using the same password as another service.
I recommend:
- KeePassDX: Can be completely offline. Probably the most secure but can be a little awkward to use sometimes.
- Bitwarden: Cloud based but open source. You could run a server but the main service offers MOST of the features for free.
Your mileage may very with some of the proprietary platforms. However my job uses 1 Password and it seems to be fairly safe.
I use keepass synced with internxt. Works so so , but internxt will hopefully improve
Check out Syncthing. It works pretty painlessly.
Thanks completely forgot about it , used it a few years back and had some issues. Seems to work great now :)
A password manager is an absolute must, in my opinion! I use Bitwarden and love it.
Yes, do it! Now! It’s the safest way, but only by choosing the right and trusted ones. Examples:
- The expensive but good one: 1Password
- The free, geeky and difficult one for normal users: Keepass.
- The simple and free and beloved one: Bitwarden
- The don’t try it ever because they will leak your data: Lastpass.
The simple and free and beloved one
You’re not giving Bitwarden much credit here. It’s really great.
Password manager-less life with notebooks and reused passwords is life in the stone age. If you or anyone you know isn’t using one, get on bitwarden.
Everyone knows why password manageras are absolutely essential, but here’s an often neglected perk: I can list every site I ever signed up to. Wanna delete some old accounts? “Did you sign up to X yet?” Simples.
Bitwarden, all the way.
Bitwarden is really great imo.
I use Bitwarden!
I like that I can share password with my team. :)
I know a lot of people are saying Bitwarden, but I’ve been using 1Password for 4 years and Bitwarden just isn’t a viable replacment.
1Password looks much more modern and their organizational tools are not present at all in Bitwarden. I can’t even sort by date created or modified in Bitwarden.
Not using a password manager is like not having locks on a house. Everyone should have one and if you don’t, you’re risking a lot of valuable stuff being taken from you.
Love dashlane.
Well, shit. I don’t use a password manager but now I feel like I should lol. Gonna check out bitwarden I guess.
Yes, they should be used. KeepassXC FTW
There’s an exploit that will dump all you passwords as raw text as a feature
I’m probably going to get grilled for this but I’ve Been using Firefox’s Saved passwords, I really don’t need anything better.
Yes you are going to get grilled for this. Please don’t use that on anything important.
Genuine question, but why are browsers so bad compared to a dedicated cloud service?
