1Password is 50% this Black Friday and I very highly recommend it.

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Submitted by twovests in just_post

A password manager is almost not an optional thing. You should have long, random, and unique passwords for most of your services, and you should use the mental resources you'd use to memorize all your passwords, to instead memorize a few passwords (e.g. your phone password, your laptop password, and your 1password password).

You've probably heard annoying people give that screed for years now, so I won't go too deep into it.

There are some other good password managers, I think. There are some bad password managers, like Lastpass. But 1Password is something I have the "cryptography expertise" and also the "I've used this daily for seven years" expertise to recommend.

It's $24 for your first year. If you stop paying, you keep access to your passwords, but the service stops syncing between devices.

https://1password.com/promo/black-friday

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flabberghaster wrote

How is it compared to eg, bitwarden? Which is free and does free syncing, but if you pay it also will do OTP codes for you and stuff.

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devtesla wrote

I used 1password for ages because I was a mac adherent and it made sense to get the nice mac password manager. I switched to bitwarden for a couple reasons that made sense for my use case, but both are great software. I might as well run down the reasoning I changed a few years ago:

  • 1Password added a way to save crypto logins that integrated with one specific platform, and that platform was clearly trying to target people new to crypto. It felt a little like integrated advertising though it's not like it was a popup in the app. They haven't like, transitioned to a crypto company to my knowledge, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.
  • In the past 1Password had the nicest interface on apple platforms, and this mattered. A few iOS updates ago Apple added feature where the OS managed the actual filling in of passwords. This reduced what 1Password did for me by a lot, it was basically just syncing text files for me at this point. Might as well get the cheapest option.
  • Bitwarden got really good, there's no features missing that I can't do without. I can basically recreate anything I'm missing from 1p using the additional fields and file upload features. I think the only thing that's nice to have in 1p that I don't get in bitwarden is multiple vaults under the same account... actually they added that and I didn't notice lol.

I find that some people who are less technically inclined have an easier time with 1p, so I still recommend it (it's what my parents use). Also good: extremely easy to move between platforms.

That's it that's my password manager rant

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twovests OP wrote

I have to admit I actually haven't used Bitwarden, but IIRC my vibes were (when I briefly looked at 1Password cryptography and some others) that its cryptography was good.

I think Bitwarden is probably fine, 1Password is just the one I can vouch for.

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twovests OP wrote

I want to clarify; I did a deep dive into 1Password's cryptography, being a cryptography student at the time, and I also looked into others only briefly.

IIRC LastPass had some silly problems (which later came to light when they were exploited in 2022), but moreso, 1Password and Bitwarden both made use of ZK when possible but in different places.

The things I like about 1Password seem to be present in Bitwarden, though. I like that 1Password is available on every OS and browser, offers a CLI, and has nice UI/UX.

I forget why I picked 1Password over Bitwarden. People On The Internet seem to say Bitwarden's UI/UX is worse, the browser extension is buggy, etc. so that might have been a factor. (I use 1Password family features lot, and people seem to say that's weaker with Bitwarden?)

tldr: they both seem good, but i can only vouch for being a happy user of 1password

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