question I’m reasonably certain Keepassium was previously listed somewhere on the Guides. The reason being, I hadn’t heard about it before coming across the app in recommendations and adding it to my notes. But I failed to find mention of it in Internet Archive snaps of the Password Manager page. I…

[image] retouch: I find that, especially when few options exist which satisfy privacy and security criteria, exclusions are implied to not be trusted. We don’t review every app with privacy marketing, because time is a finite resource. Exclusions are weakly implied to not be trustworthy, unle…

Maybe look at it more now? That Strongbox is not Open Source

Following the earlier conversation on this thread, I chose Strongbox. Though, I continued collecting data on KeePassium. I found more ongoing positive signals from the KeePassium developer, and eventually swapped out Strongbox for KeePassium. Hooray for portability, folks.

Yeah fuctionality is pretty much the same apart from using multiple databases. Unfortunately only one database for the free version is a huge turn down for me.

Sure thing. Use cases vary, though it’s worth noting, the limitation of 1 database on free becomes less noticeable if, for example, only 1 database needs to be on the mobile device with Keepassium and the rest are fine being used only elsewhere.

Hey everyone, just wanted to mention that KeePassium has successfully passed an independent code audit, and remains committed to open source. In the meanwhile, it’s been months since Strongbox was caught lying about being open source. Yet this site still endorses Strongbox and keeps KeePassium deli…

While I do appriciate the heads up and agree that we should move forward(Welcome to the forum btw!), I must say that I dislike that the first message of a project joining up on our forum has to carry such a negative tone. PrivacyGuides is a big project with many things that need to be maintained by…

How much would the audit results apply to the MacOS version? Also, will the MacOS version be released on the mac app store at some point? Last I checked, it’s a beta release distributed over github.

The audit focused on the iOS version. By the way, it runs mostly fine on Apple Silicon Macs, right from the App Store.

I just tried it and it doesn’t support hardware security keys. The dmg on github seems to work though.

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This is indeed unfortunate. There is an open thread here about removing Strongbox, but it seems to have stalled until the thread on requiring open-source password managers here is resolved.

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