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#302539 30-Nov-2022 11:13

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This sort of service is not my area, looking for some feedback on bitwarden (or similar)

Have had a request from a friend as to what application is nice and secure (as far as they can be) whilst being budget conscious for annual pricing.

Request was on Bitwarden, happy to look elsewhere

They all have glowing home pages on how good.......

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#3027684 26-Jan-2023 21:27

OWASP just changed their recommendation for PBKDF2 work factors (iterations) to 600,000 (thanks to LastPass).

So, LastPass posted that their iteration count was set to 100,100: https://support.lastpass.com/help/about-password-iterations-lp030027 but, this turned out to be false with many customers reporting they were set to as low as 1 iteration but the most common iteration counts were 500 & 5000. Customers were not upgraded automatically meaning their vaults could be brute forced easily.

Bitwarden's older customers were set to 100,001 but in response to the recommendation from OWASP newer accounts are set to 350,000 iterations. They're still considering upgrading existing customers but you can do this yourself in your web vault under Security --> Keys (I upgraded mine to 350,000 as I found 600,000 was actually quite slow) - https://fosstodon.org/@bitwarden/109733968664841286

I encourage everyone using Bitwarden to up their security by setting your KDF iterations to 350,000.

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