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KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.

211 mentions on Hacker News by 147 people: 7 stories, 204 comments · first 2017-01-19 · latest 2026-10-14

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  1. …originally motivated the fork: https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/pulls Discussion for context: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/43
    comment by lucideer · 2017-05-05 · in Password reuse and credential stuffing
  2. …of security issues (and unknowns) with KeePassHttp: https://github.com/pfn/keepasshttp/issues/258 https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/147 I've been looking for a alternative with somewhat parity with lastpass with a better…
    comment by compuguy · 2017-03-23 · in LastPass: Security done wrong
  3. …recommend. Once it's implemented I may reconsider, but for now at least, I'd shy away from it. https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/148
    comment by problems · 2017-03-22 · in LastPass RCE vulnerability fixed
  4. …is using Argon2 instead of a custom AES-based KDF? Not yet, but it's planned for the next release https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/148
  5. > Does it support the new kdbx4 ...? R: NO, https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/148 > Why should I move from KeePass2 to this? R: KeePass 1.x and 2.x are the official KeePass releases, KeePassX is a community port in C++…
  6. https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/43 states the maintainer hasn't been commenting on PRs. I looked on the keepassx GitHub and some issues with no response are over 2 years old.
  7. The reasons for the fork are explained in details there: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/43#issuec... It is rather worrying that they mention "keypasshttp" as being one of the pull request which was never merged,…
  8. …at the moment we don't have immediate plans and an implementation needs further discussion." [1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/88#issuec...
  9. Here is the repository which isn't linked anywhere on the site: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc
  10. …The application requires OS X 10.12 or later. ?? Edit: Looks like this is a known issue[1]. 1. https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/181
  11. …KeePassXC[1] was forked and slowly growing. [0] https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/pull/52 [1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc