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Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued

github.com Archiving Android Password Store · android-password-store Android-Password-Store · Discussion #3260

Hi, 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 t...

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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Good thing i switched to selfhosted vaultwarden setup.

Sees bitwarden drama, Noooo😭

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- 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!
  
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  There is no such solution but you could just not update your mobile app and keep using vault warden. Nothing will change for you.
  
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- 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
  
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  albeit it being only source available
  
  Isn't that exactly why we need to leave the official Bitwarden client for something else?
  
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  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.
  
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This one hurts... as I use this as my password manager on mobile :{

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- what are you gonna do now? i might switch to keepassxc but i don't wanna learn new stuff.
  
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  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.
  
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- Can recommend KeypassDX you can download it from fdroid. It is compatible with KeepassXC
  
  Anti Commercial AI thingy
  
  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  
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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.

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- Can CLI applications inside Termux interact with the Android clipboard?
  
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  https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-clipboard-set
  
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Honestly we need to invent something better than password managers.

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- Webauthn already exists.
  
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  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.
  
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  This is more often 2FA & a password is still needed
  
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  Any self-hosted software to recommend?
  
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- Best we have and probably will ever have on the current web. Not sure what the problem is with password managers?
  
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  Personally I would never trust an app to save and manage my passwords. There are a lot of risks with it. But I still think writing down passwords on a piece of paper and storing it in a physical safe when needed is the best approach so ik nobody will understand.
  
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- We have USB/NFC hardware security tokens, as well as OS-integrated passkeys
  
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