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My new favourite password manager (keepass.info)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by dbilitated@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] TiffyBelle@feddit.uk 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I prefer the KeePassXC fork as it's written in C++ and not C# so it has better native integration with OSes like Linux, but yeah these are really good solutions with no subscription requirements or necessity to upload to any cloud service.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's written in C++ and not C# so it has better native integration with OSes like Linux

Not sure what you mean by this. Any APIs that can be called from C++ can also be called from C#. C# apps run natively on Linux, and they support self-contained deployment and native AOT (ahead of time) compilation meaning they can run on any Linux system even if it doesn't have the .NET Core framework installed.

[–] TiffyBelle@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This thread is about KeePass and my comments relate to that. If you pull KeePass2 from the repos in Debian, for example, it's going to pull the Mono runtime to execute it as well because it's been built, like most C# apps, for JIT compilation. I doubt it's even possible to compile KeePass2 using AOT compilation.

This is what the C# KeePass application looks like using the Mono runtime in Debian:

This is KeePassXC:

You can see which has better native integration into the desktop out of the box.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 years ago

s in Debian, for example, it’s going to pull the Mono runtime to execute it as well because it’s been built, like most C# apps, for JIT compilation.

.NET Core handles JIT compilation file. It looks like the KeePass developers have not yet updated it to use .NET Core though, which is why it's pulling Mono in.

KeePassXC definitely looks nicer, but it's definitely possible to do that with C# too. The KeePass developers just haven't kept up with modern .NET.

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