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
Same, just gotta watch out for sites that don’t support it and don’t tell you that they don’t. I got into a password reset loop with a site once, until I realized it was truncating my 20 character password to their supported max of 16. They never said the max was 16, and never game an error that 20 wasn’t allowed. Just simply an asshole design. I probably could check bitwarden for whatever password I changed the most and see if it’s still an issue with the site.
I consider this lazy programming. I’ve had it happen a few times but luckily it has been rare for me.
That sounds infuriating
My old bank limited passwords to 12 characters. Unbelievable.
Reddit used to do that but silently truncated at 20.
I usually generate 16 characters password for this reason.
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.
There’s realistically no reason not to generate the max password. The different in possibilities between a password with 16 characters and one with 20 (using a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&*()?-+." which isn’t even all the options) is 1.2E30 v s 4.13E37. That’s seven orders of magnitude from 4 characters. The difference between $1 and $10,000,000. But to be fair, 1.2E30 possible combinations is kind of a lot already, but why not add a few more characters just for the hell of it?
When possible I use passphrases with numbers added. Sadly my bank has a 16 character limit.
Think I’m still on keepassxc but looking to change. Bitwarden is looking good.
Do you selfhost?
I use Bitwarden!! It’s great cause I have a long complicated password to access the vault (my phone will do it by fingerprint though) but it’s the only password I need to actually memorize. Don’t know how someone can be secure without one nowadays, way too many services
It’s probably… Um… 8#shJo9$f ?
Yup. “All day, every day”, indeed. Absolutely essential.
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I’ve been remembering my passwords for as long as I’ve been online. This thread had caused me to download and pay for Bitwarden. Took 3 minutes to import from chrome and then use it on my phone. Nice!
+1 to Bitwarden. I can’t live without it anymore
Bitwarden is great, no excuse to stick with last pass these days
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.
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 is really great imo.
bitwarden is the first thing i install on any device and every fresh install
Bitwarden is the best! I actually started with one of the more popular ones, Dashlane, and the thing I found most annoying about it was the boxes and stuff that would always pop up anytime I clicked on a text field. Bitwarden never puts a box on the middle of the screen.
It’s free, open source, use it on your phone, mac, PC, browser extension for Firefox. It’s the best.
Huge fan of Bitwarden as well.
I love that you can assign a shortcut for autofill. I found the automatic autofill a bit too trigger happy and the shortcut solves that since it’ll only autofill when I know there’s actually a username/password box on the page. It also works perfectly with websites that ask for the username and password at seperate times (google, Microsoft, etc).
I just started using it and am loving it. Although I dont know how well it will integrate with my phone yet. A bit worried about some native apps.
Selfhosting it is even better
*if you keep it updated and follow best practices
Self-hosting isn’t a requirement for this and you probably shouldn’t if you havent self hosted things before.
They’ve been independently audited and have earned enough trust to use their hosting imo.
Yeah I agree. I meant that you can save yourself an extra 10 euros a year simply by running a docker container. It’s not like there’s much setting up to it, but yeah definitely read documentation.
Vaultwarden is a godsend.
Bitwarden, all the way.
Bitwarden is just fantastic, it works so well. After migrating from LastPass years ago to BW I haven’t looked back once and have encouraged friends to switch over as well.
Yes, Bitwarden is the way to go
What are your thoughts on password managers?
They are mandatory in current digital age.
Do you use one?
Yes. Bitwarden.
Would you recommend it to others?
Already do and most are receptive to it once you show them that every single one of them were caught up in a breach at some point.
In general, password managers are a must-have in today’s world. The question is not if you should have one, but which one and why.
As a Software Engineer very conscious about security and privacy, but also with a high practicality sense, I’d say you should opt for whatever you feel more comfortable.
If you don’t want to manage anything, then 1password, BitWarden, LastPass or any of those might be right for you. If you are more of the kind to tinker with everything, then you can have your own OwnCloud/NextCloud and use KeePassXC.
I particularly used the later setup, but NextCloud was too much to handle for me, and settled with KeePassXC + Dropbox.
You do you, but use a password manager.
Another vouch for bitwarden, its free and has everything I need. Been using it for at least 5 years.
Keepass, from here to eternity
I use bitwarden - I like it a lot plus you can self-host if you don’t want to trust a third party
Bitwarden. Integrates extremely well on Android and on my PC in Firefox.
bitwarden. Using it 4 years extremely happy. Did you know they allow creating a password up to 128 characters
I’ve used bitwarden for awhile now and even got my wife on it. I love it and it’s simple to use.
