<story><title>1Password and the Crypto Wars</title><url>http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/09/06/1password-and-the-crypto-wars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SCdF</author><text>In for a penny, in for a pound.&lt;p&gt;If you care about security enough to use a password safe you might as well also use an open source solution that has even a remote chance of having its code looked at by more people than the ones trying to sell it to you.&lt;p&gt;I mean, I know 1Password is all pretty and animated and things, but things like KeePass aren&amp;#x27;t so ugly as to be unusable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eknkc</author><text>I used both KeePass and 1Password is not just about the pretty interface as you make it to be. Entire UX is much better.&lt;p&gt;Also, even if some 3rd party looked at the code, it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter because they are really transparent about the file storage format, there are even some open source cli tools to extract data. Also it is a fact that no data leaves your control. No server side storage or something like that.&lt;p&gt;I believe 1Password has a great model for a closed source password manager here.&lt;p&gt;KeePass had been really unreliable and I could not just trust it to store anything. Maybe I should give it another shot. LastPass and other &amp;quot;server side&amp;quot; storage services are not even an option for me though.</text></comment>
<story><title>1Password and the Crypto Wars</title><url>http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/09/06/1password-and-the-crypto-wars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SCdF</author><text>In for a penny, in for a pound.&lt;p&gt;If you care about security enough to use a password safe you might as well also use an open source solution that has even a remote chance of having its code looked at by more people than the ones trying to sell it to you.&lt;p&gt;I mean, I know 1Password is all pretty and animated and things, but things like KeePass aren&amp;#x27;t so ugly as to be unusable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>I agree that using anything non-opensource for this particular purpose makes no sense whatsoever.&lt;p&gt;But when I tried keepass a few months ago (maybe a year) I wasn&amp;#x27;t able to get it running properly on the Mac. Half the UI was somehow missing.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using a simple text file stored in a truecrypt drive.</text></comment>