[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Bitwarden

[Steve Isenberg]

Hi Umesh,
FIrst, the reason I used Bitwarden.  It was because it is free for personal
use, and it was easy to use with Passkeys.  I started with a blank/empty
vault and only added a handful of passwords, none of them important
passwords.

I currently use Keepass to hold and manage my passwords, I only used
Bitwarden for the demo.  The newest version of the KeePassXC port
(application) supports passkeys, but only for newer OS and I don't believe
it's supported by smartphones.  I haven't tried Bitwarden on a smartphone
either.

However I do see that Bitwarden lets you import your passwords from a large
number of password managers, including Keepass, LastPass, 1Password,
Dashlane, and a lot of others that I don't know anything about.  So, if I
were going to switch over to using Bitwarden, I'd read my existing Keepass
data into Bitwarden using Bitwarden's data import function.
I haven't tried this, so feel free to give it a try and report back.

Why do I continue to use Keepass and not use Bitwarden or another password
manager?  It's a personal opinion. I don't believe it's completely safe to
store all of my important passwords and data in any password manager's
online storage area.  To point, I believe it was 1Password that had a
number of breeches that may have leaked suposedly-secure data to others.
So I feel if I have total control over where I store my encrypted password
vault, then I can sleep better at night.

Hope that helps, let me know if you find out anything or if you have other
questions.
-steve


On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 1:32 PM Umesh via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:

> Hello Steve,
>
> When you set up a passkey account (Bitwarden), do you need to change all
> of your passwords for all of your accounts when you create a Bitwarden
> account and enter all your logins in your vault?
>
> At first glance it seems to me that you should, but that is an extremely
> tedious, though secure, process.
>
> Thanks, and thank you for your password/passkey presentation.
>
> Umesh
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