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Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi everyone. I am including some suggested sources below for our consideration:

Oesch, Sean; Ruoti, Scott (9 Aug 2019). "That Was Then, This Is Now: A Security Evaluation of Password Generation, Storage, and Autofill in Thirteen Password Managers". Retrieved November 21, 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) -- This one isn't yet published, but we should watch for when (if) it is. This is a working paper. Alternative URL: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190803296O

Anderson, Tim (24 Oct 2019). "Heads up, private penguins: Tails 4.0 is out. Security-conscious Linux gets updated apps, speed boost". The Register. Retrieved November 21, 2019. Applications installed by default in Tails include the Tor browser, Onion Share (for secure file sharing), LibreOffice, KeePassXC password manager, Electrum Bitcoin wallet (only useful with a persistent volume) and a few other productivity tools and utilities. -- It's worth mentioning in the article that Tails uses KeePassXC (if it's not already there LOL!).

Brinkmann, Martin (October 26, 2019). "Privacy and anonymity focused Linux distro Tails 4.0 released". ghacks Tech News. Retrieved November 21, 2019. As far as software is concerned, the team replaced the password manager KeePassX with KeePassXC stating that the latter is more actively developed. Both are based on KeePass, a popular password manager for desktop systems.

"Tails 4.0 is out". Tails. 2019-10-22. Retrieved November 21, 2019. Replace KeePassX with KeePassXC, which is more actively developed.

"How to: Use KeePassXC". Surveillance Self-Defense. Electronic Frontier Foundation. 4-30-2018. Retrieved November 21, 2019. This guide recommends KeePassXC because it is cross-platform and more actively developed than some of the alternatives. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) -- Another source that recommends it over others because of its active development.

Tactical Technology Collective; Front Line Defenders (12 March 2019). "KeePassXC for Windows - Secure Password Manager". Security-in-a-Box. -- another potential source that switched from KeePassX to KeePassXC. Mine for other sources and evaluate for potential inclusion in article.

Worth reading through this thread for other potential sources beyond Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/6c63i4/keepassxc_can_we_trust_it/ -- note that this includes criticisms of KeePassXC which are worth reviewing for potential inclusion in the article.

I'll add more later!

Gungb5n6nqkg (talk) 22:13, 21 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! The EFF one was actually already cited in the article. Beyond that, the first three at least look reasonably suitable per WP:RS, feel free to use them while expanding the article. Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Reference 8 no longer found.

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

8 "KeePassXC instead of KeePassX for password managers". GitHub. July 16, 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-13. returns 404 to the given https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/319

archive.org has a copy of it at https://web.archive.org/web/20191121212431/https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/319

KeePassXC instead of KeePassX for password managers #319 Closed stratacast opened this issue on Aug 18, 2017 · 1 comment Comments @stratacast stratacast commented on Aug 18, 2017 It has been almost a year since the last commit to KeePassX, meaning there are no security updates or feature updates. KeePassXC is a fork of KeePassX and has been very active with almost 80 contributors and 2200 commits since the fork began. KeePassXC has gotten many updates such as conversion to Qt5, TOTP, passphrase creation, KeeHTTP, auto-type across all platforms, and others. I think KeePassXC should be placed on privacytools.io instead of KeePassX

@ghost ghost commented on Aug 19, 2017

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09:28, 11 April 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.83.202 (talk)

Thanks - ref has been fixed - Ahunt (talk) 11:06, 11 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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