Proton Pass (Password manager)

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Hi, this is Son from SimpleLogin and now Proton Pass (PP).

I’m wondering if we can add PP to the password manager section? I think PP is qualified as it’s:

  • open source* and thoroughly audited
  • has all features that a password manager provides (password generation, autofill, autosave, vaults, etc.)
  • has email alias built in thanks to SimpleLogin
  • support 2FA, credit card, custom field, etc
  • has a free option which is enough for most users

More info on Proton Pass: Free password manager with identity protection | Proton

I see there’s also Proton Pass (Password manager) - #63 by ph00lt0, let me know if I should ask in this thread instead.

*: the server code for PP isn’t open source for several reasons:

  1. it’s based on the same backend as other proton services and isn’t designed to be self hosted (it has a lot of components)
  2. open sourcing doesn’t add any benefit as data is always E2E encrypted & decrypted client side, meaning when data is always in the E2E encrypted form when it’s sent to the server. The server can be seen as a simple sync proxy to pass data from a device to another in a reliable way.
  3. it has a lot of anti abuse logic and if public, will allow abusers to find workarounds. Anti abuse is an important topic when a service has a lot of users and some bad people can negatively affect everyone else.
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