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by t0astbread 2480 days ago
I use password managers for the following reasons:

- Convenience: I only have to remember one password and I get the comfort of a digital database (as opposed to, paper).

- The passwords I have on websites can have higher entropy and be longer than I could ever remember or type, making them possibly harder to decipher in case of a breach on any website.

- Password managers are all about security while many websites are not (at least not as their primary purpose). Password managers are probably better at it.

- If a (good) password manager is set up to sync passwords via a server or your machine somehow gets compromised, the password database should still be encrypted via a master password.

1 comments

I agree that a big pro for pwd manager is the generation of long, very secure pwds