Per the github page “With the API stabilized, we aim to have AliasVault undergo a thorough security audit this stage. We have already initiated conversations with renowned cyber security companies who have taken interest in taking this on.”
I hope it doesn’t say as I didn’t bother to check - how do free projects get money for audits like this?
Good question. I don’t see anything about current funding. They do mention in the road map having a premium cloud subscription to cover cloud hosting.
I’m a keepass user myself. Too many hosted programs turn to crap one way or another. Let alone the trust componet. I hope for the best with this software.
Excellent question, because financial transparency is becoming more and more of a factor in my shift to open software.
And I suspect that there are indeed a few not-so-good actors who are abusing FOSS for political or financial gain.
I’ll optimistically sit back and see what comes of this. I’m happy with vaultwarden.
They said VaultWarden, not BitWarden. This shouldn’t affect them.
It could. The removal of “transparency” indicates to me that the clients might also stop being open source at some point and Vaultwarden doesn’t have its own clients.
Looks like an interesting project, but I just don’t understand it’s use case.
I use Keepass and I just copy the (different) email address I used to register for a site into the username field and I’m done.
No hosting required, no additional email server, etc. just credentials in a fully portable file.
Is this trying to automate email based 2FA ?
Thanks but i stick to keepass. It does the job
Yes! Finally one with email aliases.
I actually happened to use AliasVault. It’s Free Software from the Netherlands for those who are unaware.
been the number 2 recommendation after shitass proton on alternativeto.net. ui is a bit weird, but works. password generstion def needs more options tho, some sites need more number or more special characters.
It worked right out of the box.
Do you have thoughts on 1password?
I recently started migrating away from 1Password. I was on the individual plan for almost 5 years, but this year they would raise the price. I would happily keep paying, but I just find that the quality has just gone downhill. The Firefox extension seems to freeze up quite often, or unlocking doesn’t work, or sometimes it takes 10 seconds +…
The browser extension was also feeling a bit intrusive. It would often pop up for non-login fields. There’s also no way to disable it for specific sites.
All in all, I just grew frustrated with it, and decided to switch to Bitwarden. I’m just on the free one, so I am missing quite a bit of functionality.
we used to use it at work. i hated it, cause it did not recognise any non english european character during search. i wonder what happens if someone with a full cyrillic alphabet starts to use a mess like this.
I don’t know why people use these services that charge you. Just use Keepass. It’s free and open source. The only disadvantage is syncthing across devices, but syncthing makes that trivial.
I’m curious why you asked this?…
Aren’t both of them password managers? I guess I wonder if someone has a preference for one over the other.
They are, it’s just odd to bring up an unrelated software.
I do use 1Password and like it, but I couldn’t compare it to this one.
