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Vulnerability in KeePass allows retrieval of master password, issue is not yet fixed
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I just don't like having to depend on a third party, or like the idea that they have access to my keys - even encrypted. It's too many eggs in one basket, for my taste.
But lots of people like it, and I've never heard of any criticisms of it from the security community, so it's probably an acceptable choice.
@sxan @admin 1password is interesting since they have taken steps to make sure even full access to their servers does not mean access to contents of your vaults, since vaults are client side encrypted, not only with key derived from password, but also by another key you need to transfer between your devices for another device to be able to access the stuff.
Would self-hosting (as @charlesroper@indieweb.social explained here) be a more comfortable option for you?
Yes.
However, I'm perfectly happy with KeePassXC. It's audited, secure, has a great UI, and if you want to accept less security can serve as a secret-service and ssh-agent replacement. There are a bunch of OSS tools and clients that support the kbx.v4 file format, and if you want to audit the code of the tools, they're in almost every language. There are some really nice (pretty, user friendly) native mobile apps.
There's risk in grabbing any old client, of course, but having such a diverse ecosystem is nice, especially if you don't mind reading some code.