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rubywarden

An unofficial, mostly Bitwarden-compatible API server written in Ruby (Sinatra and ActiveRecord)

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What it is

An unofficial, mostly Bitwarden-compatible API server written in Ruby (Sinatra and ActiveRecord)

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I recommend Bitwarden. I self-host it using the brilliant [rubywarden](https://github.com/jcs/rubywarden) and I've never looked back.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-11-19 14:55:41 UTC to 2019-12-05 13:38:51 UTC.

01232017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20172017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsNov 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 20172017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Dec 20172017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

16 sources
Fnoord·Jul 12, 2019
Bitwarden costs only what is it 10 or 12 USD a year. LastPass costs 24 USD, and 1Password 36 USD. If you need 2FA. If you don't need 2FA then it doesn't cost as much, but I think you still have a device limit. Bitwarden's clients are FOSS. There's a 3rd party FOSS server for it available written in Ruby. So you could even self-host. [EDIT: there's one written in Rust as well! [1] [2]] [1] https://github.com/jcs/rubywarden [2] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
In 1Password: Standalone / Local Vault Option Gone?
zie·Feb 28, 2018
I don't see anything wrong, but will add: Bitwarden has a desktop app(electron .. sigh but is cross-platform) and has integrations with all the major browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, IE) Bitwarden also has Mobile support (iOS, Android & UWP). KeepassXC only does Chrome(and family) and Firefox I believe. Running your own bitwarden server is not difficult, and there are 3 implementations that I know about: The original .NET: https://github.com/bitwarden/core The Ruby one: https://github.com/jcs/bitwarden-ruby/ The Go one: https://github.com/VictorNine/bitwarden-go
In KeePassXC 2.3.0 released
drdaeman·Feb 28, 2018
The linked article is very light on details to be called a comparison. Let me try to make it a little bit more detailed. ==================== Bitwarden: - Is essentially a service (with FLOSS client software and FLOSS server code). - Quite polished browser integration (to the extent browsers allow it). - Third party server holding the encrypted data. Proprietary (in a "completely unique, not compatible with anything else" sense) sync protocol. - Symmetric encryption key is encrypted with master key but it is NOT changed (with re-encrypting all the entries) when master password is changed. I'm not sure if there is an option to re-encrypt the data in case the symmetric key is compromised, although this should be doable via APIs. - Data is encrypted and signed, but some of the data structure (folder layout, TOTP existence, revision dates) is
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(theoretically) accessible to the service owners. Check out snippets at https://github.com/jcs/bitwarden-ruby/blob/master/API.md for info. - Has some nice extras built-in, like domain equivalence logic. - Self-hosted option is available (official Docker images using .NET Core and Microsoft SQL Server and unofficial third-party implementation in Ruby). I'm not sure how this works with licensing. ==================== Keepass: - Is primarily a standalone application. Or, better say, applications, as there are multiple independent implementations for many platforms. - Has browser integration, but all options (KeepassXC-Browser and PassIFox) are feel somewhat less polished. - Has composite credentials (in addition or instead of master password it can use i.e. keyfiles). Supported mechanisms vary with implementation. - If the encryption keys are compromised you can trivially re-encrypt the database to avoid further leaks. - File format is essentially a large encrypted and signed XML file (data block) with some extensible header that defines the crypto details. https://keepass.info/help/kb/kdbx_4.html - You handle the sync however you want it. For KeepassXC you need make database available in a filesystem. For Keepass and Android app there are also SFTP, WebDAV, Dropbox, Google Drive and some other options available. The only sync that's in the app is a logic for merging databases. ==================== Please correct me if I got something wrong. Thanks.
In KeePassXC 2.3.0 released

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