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Tag: bitwarden

The origins of Bitwarden and how it is fending off the tech giants

2024-05-082024-05-08 Danie
Phone screen showed blurred text, but has two pop up windows one stating Text with a string of random letters like a password, and the other states deletion date 7 days. To the left is a instant chat bubble showing a conversation snippet saying "what's the password for the company Twitter account?" and the reply is "Hang on let me send you a password link, with the response being a bitwarden link.

Kyle Spearrin had never developed a mobile app or browser extension when he started building Bitwarden as a fun side project in 2015. Nearly nine years later, Spearrin’s humble attempt at a free, open-source password […]

Blogbitwarden, opensource, passwords, security, technology

Bitwarden begins adding passkey support to its password manager

2023-11-022023-11-02 Danie
Woman typing on a silver colour laptop

Although Bitwarden now supports storing and logging in using passkeys from its browser extensions, it’s not currently possible to store passkeys in the company’s mobile app. According to Bitwarden’s FAQ, this feature is “planned for […]

Blogbitwarden, passkeys, technology

Bitwarden finally brings 2FA logins to free users

2023-09-292023-09-29 Danie
Bitwarden's illustration showing how the 2FA process works, starting with a user on the left, usinga primary device to login to an application which sends a request back for a token, and the token being entered on the primary device to complete login.

Previously, you had to pay for Bitwarden’s premium plan to add 2FA for your stored logins. Bitwarden is claiming they are the only password manager to now include 2FA logins for free. As a paying […]

Blog2fa, bitwarden, security, technology

Password manager Bitwarden will too soon be able to store passkeys, but here’s why you may want to wait a bit with passkeys

2023-05-252023-05-25 Danie
A padlock with 1's and 0's in numbers behind it

I did a post a few weeks back speculating around the same issues but listening now to Steve Gibson talking on the Tech News Weekly episode 284 podcast at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly/episodes/284 has reinforced my thinking about […]

Blogbitwarden, passkeys, security, technology

An easy-to-make Pi-powered pocket password pal – using self-hosted Bitwarden

2022-11-012022-11-01 Danie
hadimg byopm feat

For those who don’t even trust a zero trust online service like Bitwarden, there is this option… This project takes the now well-explored USB gadget feature of the Pi Zero, integrates it into a Bitwarden-backed […]

Blogbitwarden, opensource, raspberrypi, selfhosted, technology

How to deploy the open source Bitwarden self-hosted password manager server with Docker

2022-08-232022-08-23 Danie
deploy bitwarden server docker

Bitwarden is one of the best open-source password managers on the market. I might even go so far as to say it’s the best password manager period. One of the many reasons why this is […]

Blogbitwarden, opensource, passwordmanager, selfhosting, technology
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