Best password managers

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Best password managers

When it comes to free password managers, Bitwarden and NordPass offer users the most functionality with the least compromise, a MyBroadband analysis shows.
 
I find it a bit silly to hand out password management to 3rd parties when your OS has it built in.
 
Mybroadband should review other password managers like Enpass which is available on the Google Play Pass, and SiC.

www.enpass.io

Enpass: Secure Passkey & Password Manager That Keeps Your Data On Your Cloud Storage

With Enpass, choose where your passwords and passkeys are secured and synced – on your personal or business clouds (or even offline). Not on our servers
www.enpass.io www.enpass.io

SafeInCloud — Safe — Passkey & Password Manager

No more hacks and forgotten passwords. Safe securely stores them and helps you log in with one click.
www.safe-in-cloud.com www.safe-in-cloud.com

and though you need to pay to unlock those, they are both good and reliable password managers. Then compare them to KeePass and to the service options.

I highly recommend Enpass.
 
Password managers? WTF... if you need one of these, then I have bad news for you...
 
Rouxenator said:
Not Windows if you are signed in.
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Speedster said:
Can I use that on my Samsung
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Exactly what these sell. Cross-platform. My PC is Windows and iPhone as my phone with a terrible Samsung tablet:sleep:

LastPass or Bitwarden would be my choice. If only I had a Mac and iPad to go along with my iPhone I could just use iCloud keychain for free in the ecosystem.

If I wanted to use iCloud Keychain on Windows I can only use Edge as a browser.
 
mypetcow said:
KeePassXC feels left out. Even the EFF (not that one!) rates it as one of the best out there.

en.wikipedia.org

KeePassXC - Wikipedia

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KeePassXC is not a 'service'.

Bitwarden, LastPass, NordPass, Dashlane, 1Password... are all services, hence convenience and believed availability. You have to ask, what happens when those services aren't online?

Hence, I made my post, that other password managers which doesn't require internet connectivity to access your password database also be evaluated.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
KeePassXC is not a 'service'.

Bitwarden, LastPass, NordPass, Dashlane, 1Password... are all services, hence convenience and believed availability. You have to ask, what happens when those services aren't online?

Hence, I made my post, that other password managers which doesn't require internet connectivity to access your password database also be evaluated.
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You realise most of those use a locally stored db?
 
Speedster said:
You realise most of those use a locally stored db?
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Bitwarden allows you to host your own vault, which I doubt ordinary users will do. Though Bitwarden is making progress,

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to allow editing at some point in time.

LastPass, IIRC, only allows you with a cached database, though you can export your database. Nordpass and Dashlane, the same, you only have a cached database which can't be edited.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Bitwarden allows you to host your own vault, which I doubt ordinary users will do. Though Bitwarden is making progress,

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to allow editing at some point in time.

LastPass, IIRC, only allows you with a cached database, though you can export your database. Nordpass and Dashlane, the same, you only have a cached database which can't be edited.
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I think you're missing something here. I use bitwarden. It syncs the db in the cloud (which allows for multi device usage), but has a locally stored db too. The only time there might be issues being offline is when a password has been changed (or a new one created) on a different device.
 
RudderVator said:
Exactly what these sell. Cross-platform. My PC is Windows and iPhone as my phone with a terrible Samsung tablet:sleep:

LastPass or Bitwarden would be my choice. If only I had a Mac and iPad to go along with my iPhone I could just use iCloud keychain for free in the ecosystem.

If I wanted to use iCloud Keychain on Windows I can only use Edge as a browser.
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Which is why I use Edge on my Xiaomi phone. It is a better browser than Chrome.
 
Speedster said:
I think you're missing something here. I use bitwarden. It syncs the db in the cloud (which allows for multi device usage), but has a locally stored db too. The only time there might be issues being offline is when a password has been changed (or a new one created) on a different device.
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It is not a locally stored DB, it is a cached DB. Unless you use Bitwarden to host your own vault. What I am saying is that you don’t own your vault in the 'cloud'.

When you use Bitwarden, and you don’t have access to the ‘cloud’ you need Bitwarden to be unlocked to use the cached DB. You can’t edit the cached DB, some password services allow this cached DB to be exported, but then it needs to be decrypted (or unlocked pending on their wording).

I also use Bitwarden as an enterprise solution.
 
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