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clients

Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).

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Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).

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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	0	5
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Bitwarden Client Applications This repository houses all Bitwarden client applications except the mobile applications (iOS | android). Please refer to the Clients section of the Contributing Documentation for build instructions, recommended tooling, code style tips, and lots of other great information to get you started. Related projects: bitwarden/server: The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). bitwarden/ios: Bitwarden iOS Password Manager & Authenticator apps. bitwarden/android: Bitwarden Android Password Manager & Authenticator apps. bitwarden/directory-connector: A tool for syncing a directory (AD, LDAP, Azure, G Suite, Okta) to an organization. We're Hiring! Interested in contributing in a big way? Consider joining our team! We're hiring for many positions. Please take a look at our Careers page to see what opportunities are currently open as well as what it's like to work at Bitwarden. Contribute Code contributions are welcome! Please commit any pull requests against the main branch. Learn more about how to contribute by reading the Contributing Guidelines. Check out the Contributing Documentation for how to get started with your first contribution. Security audits and feedback are welcome. Please open an issue or email us privately if the report is sensitive in nature. You can read our security policy in the SECURITY.md file.

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What Hacker News says

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roustem·Dec 31, 2022

Fun fact: Bitwarden also includes some of the 1Password open-source code: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/blob/c10e93c0d9cf306a59...

In I Lost All Faith in LastPass

fastforious·Sep 28, 2022

The feature was added over two weeks ago, but the update hasn't been pushed to Mozilla's repository yet, apparently. https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/tag/browser-v2...

In Integrating with Fastmail

mikestaub·Sep 7, 2022

Maybe with this new money they can fix the only bug stopping me from ditching LastPass https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/2304

In Bitwarden raises $100M

buro9·Sep 6, 2022

The code for the server is AGPLv3 https://github.com/bitwarden/server , with only things in the /bitwarden_license/ directory being proprietary. The code for the mobile apps is GPLv3 https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/blob/master/LICENSE.txt The code for the clients is GPLv3 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients These are all copyleft... with a CLA (contributor license agreement). It's the CLA that allows them the ability to dual-license for the server. The VCs must really believe the company can produce a product based on Enterprise sales which would deliver a value North of $1B. And perhaps they can, as Bitwarden as we know it could be considered a strong beachhead to allow them to expand into other auth markets that have high value (hello Okta, Auth0, etc). But this doesn't seem that scary for Bitwarden users at this point.

In Bitwarden raises $100M

nacs·Sep 6, 2022

Not only that but even the clients are open source ( https://github.com/bitwarden/clients ). There's even an unofficial Rust reimplementation of the server which is even better. Parent post is spreading FUD on this one.

In Bitwarden raises $100M

Normille·Aug 12, 2022

I moved from LastPass to Bitwarden a few years back. Bitwarden does win a few kudos points for being free and open source. Unfortunately, Bitwarden is far from perfect either. It suffers from glaring UI problems which the developers have point-blank refused to address, insisting instead that that is how it is supposed to work --which is incredibly arrogant and 'Jobsian'... "You're using it wrong!" Example: * https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/443 * https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/839 * https://community.bitwarden.com/t/persistent-bitwarden-ui-an...

In Ask HN: What is the best password manager for business use?

j1elo·Jun 11, 2022

> bitwarden/clients/issues/1620 (open since Feb 2021) Oh, try with something much worse, and open since Dec 2017 (no, migrating to a new place is no excuse at all to mark the issue as magically resolved) https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/443 Here I made a pretty clear video of the issue: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/persistent-bitwarden-ui-an... Did anyone care? Not that I know of. It's 2022, so that's been 5 years now. I'll keep paying the pro account as long as it keeps working for me, but it saddens me that we still don't have a universally good and free service that can be recommended to lots of non-techies that are still stuck on the old customs of reusing passwords.

In Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups

mdaniel·Jun 11, 2022

My experience is that 1P has a lot more polish and consideration for the user (err, I mean before the "8" debacle). I cannot recall a single time I have lost an autogenerated password, whereas with BW it happened about 50% of the time. Filling up my vault with hundreds of unnecessary password captures is better than losing a single one, because they don't know how important any one password is in order to gauge how "oops, sorrreeee, our bad" affects the user https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/1620 (open since Feb 2021) Aside from that, 1P has a ton more item types, which if one thinks about a password manager as a key-value store, maybe that's not interesting, but for me it's been really great having passport details in a specific spot, without having to invent my own taxonomy for squeezing passport details into key-value pairs S

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peaking of taxonomy, BW's lack of tagging is a dealbreaker for me. Why in the world do I have to pick just one "folder" for an item to live in: it can be "work" *and* "aws" *and* "testing" allowing me to see all work, all aws, all testing items grouped together I do hate the new 1P api-only approach, but I'm not going to jump ship just yet because the competition is not yet better for my needs

In Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups

jeroenhd·Jun 11, 2022

Looking at the export code: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/blob/da5e4a57d026e0d093... The entire export process seems to be client side. Altering the export to include files should be feasible though the Bitwarden devs might choose not to merge your code because allowing users to access all of those Azure buckets all at once must come at a significant cost. My workaround for this is to stuff SSH keys and the like in secret fields rather than attachments. This doesn't work for larger files, but it works well enough for my use cases so far.

In Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups

mdaniel·Jan 19, 2022

I wholeheartedly agree with the UX comment, and for the "leveling up security" part specifically, I'll point out that 1P 8 now has a "generate horse-battery-stable 'security question' answers" button, which is about as close to the intersection of good UX and good security as I can imagine My experience with Bitwarden is that their browser extension is gravely broken, which is a subset of UX, but crosses over into "how is this not a 'stop all work and fix it' bug?": https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/1620 I have a paid Bitwarden subscription, because I wanted to give it a fair shake, but based on my experience thus far it'll be years before they catch up to AgileBits

In 1Password Has Raised $620M

mkdirp·Jan 19, 2022

Oh my, thanks for that link, I hadn't noticed. It's disappointed that addressing this[0] took 5 years and a whole lot of denying it's their fault, and that it is Mozilla's fault[1]! All it took was Chrome introducing a deadline... [0] https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/pull/2121/commits/9d81b... [1] https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/136#issuecomment...

In Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

up6w6·Jan 19, 2022

They are trying to do some improvements to make it partially work in private tabs. If I understood correctly, there will still be some issues until they refactor the whole extension for Manifest V3 (deadline is Jan/2023). https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/pull/2121#issuecomment-...

In Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager