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"The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden" (it isn't good) (blog.ppb1701.com)

submitted 2 days ago by RotatingParts@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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If you are interested in privacy you are probably interested in password storage ... plus I wanted everyone to know about the inevitable future enshitification of this product. Spread the word and replacement recommendations are welcome too.

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I was imagining a system more like Password Store - use Git to version control secrets which are encrypted using some form of asymmetric encryption.

You store the private key somewhere you control, like a USB drive or something. Same as Bitwarden's master password.

[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, there's still a risk if you're exposing the encrypted passwords. For example there is still some risk that governments have backdoors in some kinds of encryption, which of course means other malicious actors do as well. And there's still brute forcing which is mitigated with a webserver layer in front of the raw data.

But there are lots of existing applications for that like keypass and its forks. Vaultwarden is more about the web services front end to the data than the data storage itself. And a web service benefits from a relational database over a flat file.