• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    It’s protected by the user’s login password. If an attacker can steal that or knows it already, the passwords are all there for them to see.

    Bitwarden (on the other hand, for example) has 2FA options to unlock the database.

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      3 months ago

      How does this work if accessing Bitwarden via the browser extension? I don’t like needing to type my master password in all the time as it’s long, so I have the setting turned on that times the vault out periodically, but so it’s also unlockable with a pin rather than requiring the master password every time. I understand the pin is shorter, but does the protection of the vault still stand?

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        3 months ago

        That’s a good question. I don’t actually know the answer to that. I know the passwords are hashed locally when your vault is locked and before being synced, but I’m not sure whether it’s in plaintext when it’s unlocked or if it uses some kind of on-demand decryption. It’s probably in their docs, I should think.

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      3 months ago

      Oh, so you mean local vs external, not browser-based vs other local solutions.