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Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).

73 mentions on Hacker News by 62 people: 3 stories, 70 comments · first 2016-10-10 · latest 2026-05-19

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  1. …account. Imagine how long it'll take for somebody get around the huge code base on their own. [0] https://github.com/bitwarden/server/graphs/contributors
    comment by thatsnotmepls · 2020-01-21 · in LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
  2. My recommended alternative to LastPass: Bitwarden at https://github.com/bitwarden/server The ability to host it yourself is a big kudo to me, then we are no longer constrained by LastPass like this case here.
    comment by stevefan1999 · 2020-01-21 · in LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
  3. CVE-2019-19766 https://github.com/bitwarden/server/issues/589
    comment by sneak · 2020-01-11 · in SMS is not 2FA-secure
  4. …you can configure, both on the client and the server. https://github.com/bitwarden/jslib/issues/52 https://github.com/bitwarden/server/issues/589 “It was audited” is meaningless if the audit missed this, or reported this and the dev…
    comment by sneak · 2019-12-15 · in A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
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    An open source alternative to LastPass
    story by todsac · 2019-12-12 · 0 comments
  6. …that we only rely on Apple Keychain and Chrome password sync due to their MegaCorp backing? 0: https://github.com/bitwarden/server/graphs/contributors
    comment by amdavidson · 2019-10-07 · in Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
  7. …maintained by one person [1]? What happens to the SaaS offering if he gets run over by a car? [1] https://github.com/bitwarden/server/graphs/contributors
    comment by thatsnotmepls · 2019-10-07 · in Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
  8. …it. It just doesn't feel right (same goes for the 3rd party FOSS server). But that's just me. [0]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server
    comment by MrGilbert · 2019-07-12 · in 1Password: Standalone / Local Vault Option Gone?
  9. …to skip running app manually in most cases. [0]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs [1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server
    comment by igorstellar · 2019-06-25 · in Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
  10. …Based on IPFS so seems like your entire privacy rests in crypto Bitwarden: https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/master/README.md App works well but it doesn't seem like there is interest in making this general purpose, maybe beca
    comment by philips · 2019-03-26 · in Firefox Lockbox – Take your passwords everywhere
  11. …about 6 weeks ago asking where the tests are and it received zero responses from the maintainers: https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/399
    comment by cassianoleal · 2018-12-22 · in Evaluation of five password managers
  12. Question about bitwarden: I found this issue saying there are no tests. https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/399 Also in the comments here someone said there are no tests. Does anyone have any info about that? I am interested in the…
    comment by codesuki · 2018-12-22 · in Evaluation of five password managers
  13. …& polish that 1p has, so I didn't migrate. This is kind of yikes for a password manager too: https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/399 But it's also pretty much the only polished open source password manager there is out there. For now…
    comment by woolvalley · 2018-12-04 · in Quora User Data Compromised
  14. …keys. Cure53 deemed it a hard problem to solve. I wrote a proposed strategy for mitigating it: https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/392 Regarding Bitwarden's cryptographic security, a cursory read through their code yields the…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2018-11-12 · in Bitwarden Completes Third-Party Security Audit
  15. There's a bounty program but AFAIK there hasn't been an audit yet: https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/27
    comment by pragmatick · 2018-07-11 · in Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
  16. …to pay licenses for the database if we want to self host. As Bitwarden states in the core readme ( https://github.com/bitwarden/core#requirements ) "These dependencies are free to use." And if you lookup the licensing on MSFTs website (…
    comment by muhblah · 2018-07-11 · in Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
  17. https://github.com/bitwarden/core/blob/master/README.md SQL Server 2017, really? Interesting choice. Open source but we have to pay licenses for the database if we want to self host. I wonder what was wrong with PostgreSQL or MySQL even if…
    comment by pmontra · 2018-07-11 · in Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
  18. …found a GitHub issue on the subject [1] and they're working with researchers on HackerOne [2]. [1] https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/27 [2] https://hackerone.com/bitwarden
    comment by davidcuddeback · 2018-04-11 · in 1Password for Open Source Projects
  19. …server is not difficult, and there are 3 implementations that I know about: The original .NET: https://github.com/bitwarden/core The Ruby one: https://github.com/jcs/bitwarden-ruby/ The Go one: https://github.com/VictorNine/bitwarden-go
    comment by zie · 2018-02-28 · in KeePassXC 2.3.0 released
  20. …is often used to describe libre/copyleft software. And Bitwarden appears to be AGPL [1]. [1] https://github.com/bitwarden/core/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
    comment by xcolour · 2017-05-04 · in Password Sharing with Organizations
  21. …a handfull of the project's libraries haven't been ported to Core from the Full framework yet. See: https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/3 Additionally the DB Backend is MSSQL which "is" linux compatible (kind of), but if the author…
    comment by ReAn · 2016-10-11 · in Bitwarden – Free and Open Source Password Manager
  22. …as lawyers. EDIT: This is all moot anyway because the author did end up using GPLv3[1]. [1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/core/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
    comment by cyphar · 2016-10-11 · in Bitwarden – Free and Open Source Password Manager
  23. …it requires some third party library dependencies to be addressed first. This is being tracked here https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/3 . I anticipate this to run on .NET Core in the near future and therefore be truly cross platform…
    comment by xxkylexx · 2016-10-10 · in Bitwarden – Free and Open Source Password Manager