thatcasualgamingguy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Security is only one part of it. If you host a password manager yourself then things like availability, backups, disaster recovery and monitoring also become your responsibility. I'm hosting my own vaultwarden but there is only a very limited amount of people I would suggest self hosting a password manager to, because I know they have the knowledge to do it and understand the risks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Well, only if you host it in the cloud. Not if you host it at home, for example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If I understand it correctly, the passwords are stored encrypted, but not the additional data, like website-URLs and app-names. This way the password manager only needs to temporarily decrypt a specific password when it's needed for auto-fill. In regards to the passwords that's probably a bit safer than keeping all the data and the passwords unencrypted in memory. But the cost is that all the other data is stored unencrypted.