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Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

182 mentions on Hacker News by 153 people: 18 stories, 164 comments · first 2018-07-11 · latest 2026-10-10

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  1. …I don't get why they don't do a clean-room implementation if they're so worried about licenses.. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/3368
  2. Vaultwarden is even easier to self-host, it's basically a single binary that uses a SQLite database: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
    comment by remram · 2023-08-07 · in Write your passwords down (2010)
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    Vaultwarden: Alternative implementation of the Bitwarden server API in Rust
    story by Daril · 2023-07-29 · 6 comments
  4. …Sorry I'm not familiar with rust world. But anyways, said vuln doesn't apply to vaultwarden. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/blob/19e671ff25bf...
  5. I recently discovered Vaultwarden ( https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden ) and love it. It's basically single Rust binary (self-compiled: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Building-bin... ) with a SQLite3 database…
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    Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
    story by pretext · 2023-05-20 · 0 comments
  7. …syncs all your devices, overall just pretty good. Website: https://bitwarden.com/ Vaultwarden: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden KeepassXC (optionally synced with syncthing or your cloud provider of choice) - Portable, no need to…
  8. Same. I think here is a good place to shout out to Vaultwarden: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden Your password data, back under your own control.
    comment by isomorphic · 2023-04-24 · in 1Password to Add Telemetry
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    Vaultwarden 1.28 released under AGPLv3
    story by elashri · 2023-03-27 · 0 comments
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    Vaultwarden 1.28.0 released – license changed to AGPLv3
    story by thunderbong · 2023-03-27 · 0 comments
  11. …a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance [1] with emergency access [2]. Maybe with redundancy even. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden [2] https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/
  12. Vaultwarden - I like how they explain things completely on their wiki: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki
  13. jjlin raised some valuable points in https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/2450#... , where the initial motivation and reasoning were faulty or incomplete: > While I don't object to changing the license, I think a few…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2023-02-13 · in Re-License Vaultwarden to AGPLv3
  14. Listed as "Solves https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/2450 " which I guess is just a "discussion" in that they want the contributors to assign copyright
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-02-13 · in Re-License Vaultwarden to AGPLv3
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    Re-License Vaultwarden to AGPLv3
    story by demurgos · 2023-02-13 · 188 comments
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    Ask HN: Just got a brand new server, what do I do first?
    story by h4ch1 · 2023-02-01 · 5 comments
  17. …(an unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust) has been updated two hours ago via https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/commit/2d8c8e18f7... – - Change default Password Hash KDF Storage from 100_000 to 600_000 iterations…
  18. …into the Rust version before Bitwarden updates the clients. In one case they weren't fast enough https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/3082
    comment by cube00 · 2023-01-19 · in Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
  19. …sign into the vault. If you only lock your vault and not fully logout you may not have noticed it. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/3082
    comment by cube00 · 2023-01-19 · in Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
  20. …standards than the official client. However I don't have any real reasons to suspect this. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
    comment by sampling · 2023-01-18 · in Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
  21. You can run the open source VaultWarden server ( https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden ) on way slower hardware. It takes a while for the project to catch up in terms of API support compared to the official server, but it's great for…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2023-01-18 · in Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
  22. …bitwarden is that it has a self hosting open source version, vaultwarden that is easy to switch to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden I see this as downside protection, as I can quickly migrate if I disagree with bitwarden's…
    comment by kjfarm · 2023-01-18 · in Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
  23. …now all I need is a service I can pay to host an instance for me. ...and to not take VC funding. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden Though I fear it’s only a matter of time before the VC gods demand the client apps remove…
    comment by afavour · 2023-01-18 · in Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
  24. …is best utilized in self-hosted home or SMB scenarios. [0] https://github.com/bitwarden/server [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
  25. …always works just as you expect it to ( https://traefik.io/ ) * vaultwarden as a password manager ( https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden ) * vikunja an incredible todo list service. I cannot recommend this highly enough! (…
    comment by conor_f · 2023-01-06 · in Ask HN: What's on your home server?
  26. …fees, and no complaints till now with the self-hosted setup. Definitely would recommend! [0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
  27. …Reference impl. in C#: https://github.com/bitwarden/server Self-host friendly impl. in Rust: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden p.s.: reference implementation is by far one of the better examples of how to do microservice-based C#…
  28. …a "it just works" and Bitwarden hosted yourself if you want the same but on your own premises via https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden .
    comment by sondr3 · 2022-12-26 · in Ask HN: LastPass Alternatives
  29. …instance of the server formerly known as "bitwarden_rs" running in my basement as the sync backend. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden I still pay them annually for their "freemium" features even though I prefer not to let them…
  30. …own instances of vaultwarden[1], but it also applies to file-based storage such as KeePass. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
  31. Check out Vaultwarden instead - https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden . It is written in Rust and is much lighter on resource requirements. CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS ecce485b8b3a bitwarden…
  32. …everything, even the pro features, and supports multiple accounts for the whole family for example: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
    comment by neurostimulant · 2022-12-01 · in Lastpass Security Incident
  33. …that yourself. Must say I don't see the use of password history though - why is that useful? [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden.git
  34. …If it wasn't for Docker, some other way of circumventing good engineering would be found :-) [0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/blob/main/docker/...
  35. …to make deployment foolproof. The vaultwarden install instructions assume Docker, for example: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden . If you want to install native binaries, you're going to have to git fetch/checkout/pull the latest…
  36. …places to have a browse. [1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho... [2] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
  37. Also: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
    comment by Saris · 2022-09-10 · in Problems with BitWarden
  38. …offers those for free if you so wish, but there are no restrictions to self hosting Bitwarden. [0]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden [1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/master/LICENSE_FAQ....
    comment by doodlesdev · 2022-09-10 · in Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue)
  39. …it to public Internet through Cloudflare zero trust (also free). Had no problems so far. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden , note that it's different from Bitwarden's official server ( https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-prem…
  40. …I don't trust that service with my data. I host an instance of the community-developed backend: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden on my own server so that I don't need to, and use the FOSS clients to access it. I feel more…
  41. That's where Vaultwarden ( https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden ) comes in. You can use the official Bitwarden clients and fully host the backend by yourself. You don't need to trust Bitwarden with your data and can probably upgrade…
    comment by Tajnymag · 2022-09-06 · in Bitwarden raises $100M
  42. …server [1] or the compatible Vaultwarden [2]). [1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server [2]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
  43. …I don't even use. Even the unofficial Rust-based server looks to have more features than I need: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki
    comment by nacs · 2022-09-06 · in Bitwarden raises $100M
  44. …3rd party project that uses the bitwarden protocol that is much loved by the community.[1] 1: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
    comment by FlyingSnake · 2022-09-06 · in Bitwarden raises $100M
  45. I think you don't need anything else by the README of vaultwarden. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden It has worked for me great without any issues for over a year now.
    comment by przemub · 2022-09-06 · in Bitwarden raises $100M
  46. …them probably are not going to be implemented. At least unless someone contributed any of them. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki#wiki-pages-b ...
    comment by elashri · 2022-09-06 · in Bitwarden raises $100M
  47. …payment system (not paying means staying on that version vs having it stop working). ---- 0: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
    comment by xoa · 2022-09-06 · in Bitwarden raises $100M
  48. …vaultwarden[2] supports TOTP as well. [1] https://bitwarden.com/help/authenticator-keys/ [2] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
  49. …official Bitwarden clients with a free open source self-hosted backend, like vaultwarden [1]. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/
  50. …edit existing trusted emergency contacts." [1] - https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/ [2] - https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/ [3] - https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/#how-it-works
    comment by aunlead · 2022-06-15 · in Cheat sheet for if I'm gone