That’s my reasoning as well. The only drawback I currently see for bitwarden is that it’s US based and I have zero trust in their current government not going to cut off the rest of the world at some point. I’m still using it, but I make sure to make regular encrypted backups of my vaults.
Randomly generate your master password too. It takes a bit to memorize, but becomes muscle memory pretty quickly. And since random passwords have the highest possible entropy per character you can use a shortish one, which allows for fast typing while still being impossible to brute force (I use 16 chars).
I’m not prone to forgetting things, but if you are, it’s easy enough to write down and store somewhere secure like a safe deposit box. If you have people you trust, you should have a backup copy anyways so they can access your password manager if you die suddenly.
Both Bitwarden and 1Password can also generate passphrases with high entropy that are much easier to memorize and enter. I use that for my master password.
Get a password manager. It’s a lot more secure and easier to only have to remember one strong main password and have the rest randomly generated
^ I love Bitwarden
I enjoy self hosting it
(Rather vaultwarden)
If it’s something of vital importance, my mantra is to pay for someone else to host it.
They can have the responsibility of security / updates / etc. because a company full of people can do that better than I ever can.
That’s my reasoning as well. The only drawback I currently see for bitwarden is that it’s US based and I have zero trust in their current government not going to cut off the rest of the world at some point. I’m still using it, but I make sure to make regular encrypted backups of my vaults.
In case you didn’t know, you can opt to have your passwords stored in EU by making an account on bit warden.eu
KeePassXC, donor, and I sync it with my (self-hosted) SyncThing server.
Randomly generate your master password too. It takes a bit to memorize, but becomes muscle memory pretty quickly. And since random passwords have the highest possible entropy per character you can use a shortish one, which allows for fast typing while still being impossible to brute force (I use 16 chars).
Once you forget it, you lose everything
I’m not prone to forgetting things, but if you are, it’s easy enough to write down and store somewhere secure like a safe deposit box. If you have people you trust, you should have a backup copy anyways so they can access your password manager if you die suddenly.
Both Bitwarden and 1Password can also generate passphrases with high entropy that are much easier to memorize and enter. I use that for my master password.