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Over the past 3 years the pace of development in APS has steadily fallen off as maintainers including myself have moved on to other things. I no longer have time and motivation to dedicate to this project, and in the absence of significant external contributions there is no-one else I can offer the project's stewardship to.

To that effect, I will be archiving the repository on Monday, October 14th 2024 at 7AM GST. In the situation that a serious and viable fork emerges, I will help them as much as I can with the transition. The criteria for what counts as "serious and viable" is entirely vibes-driven for now, and may become more specific in the future. In case I determine that a fork does not live up to my made up standard, they will have to come up with a slightly more creative name than "Android Password Store" and watch low 4 figures of cash wither away in OpenCollective's bank account.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I was using this app until I created a new gpg key and OpenKeychain did not work because of this https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/issues/2886. I then installed password store inside termux and I am using it as if I am using it from my PC. That works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can CLI applications inside Termux interact with the Android clipboard?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Honestly we need to invent something better than password managers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

We have USB/NFC hardware security tokens, as well as OS-integrated passkeys

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any self-hosted software to recommend?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thx. Will check!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You still need to store those secrets. You would probably refer to a keychain but in the end it is still a password/secret manager.

And the current implementation is not really better, services like paypal still do not allow you to use a passkey on the desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is more often 2FA & a password is still needed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Best we have and probably will ever have on the current web. Not sure what the problem is with password managers?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good thing i switched to selfhosted vaultwarden setup.

Sees bitwarden drama, Noooo😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

vaultwarden is perfectly fine. we just need to fund 3rd party clients for platforms. on android we already have keyguard, albeit it being only source available

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah vaultwarden even has its own web interface so my passwords probably not going to locked behind priopority apps. İ think i will keep using it for a while at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

albeit it being only source available

Isn't that exactly why we need to leave the official Bitwarden client for something else?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yup, my point was we need fully open source clients for all platforms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, with all the stuff going on with password managers, I wonder if there's a truly future-proof setup that can be self-hosted and will never have these issues.

I was a Keepass user many years ago, but I'm not confident that a Keepass-like system would work well with some very computer-illiterate family members. Bitwarden is hard enough to teach them, and it's one of the easy ones!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is no such solution but you could just not update your mobile app and keep using vault warden. Nothing will change for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you could just not update your mobile app and keep using vault warden.

Well, I'd prefer that the apps that are a gateway to my most important pieces of data (passwords) be updated to plug vulnerabilities and exploits. If it were any other app/service, then I can live without updates. But not something related to passwords.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Someone will fork it, once Bitwarden close the source you won't know if they are even patching vulnerabilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yup. I'm either hoping for a more sustainable alternative, or a fork with active updates.

For now, I'm holding my position, but preparing for an exit from Bitwarden.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This one hurts... as I use this as my password manager on mobile :{

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Can recommend KeypassDX you can download it from fdroid. It is compatible with KeepassXC

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what are you gonna do now? i might switch to keepassxc but i don't wanna learn new stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure. As long as it keeps working, I'll probably keep using it until a viable alternative appears. I use my laptop more than my phone, so I don't actually need passwords on my phone as often.