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by mongol 2475 days ago
Not very. I use pass together with a self-hosted git repo.

Passwords are too important to evaluate a manager on convenience primarily. I think it is a little strange that banks do not work to get in this area. You trust your bank or else you would not keep your money there. I know too little about the main password manager companies to know if they are trustworthy.

I guess this is too small domain for banks but I think it would be interesting to see what happened if they moved into it.

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Considering that my bank (Wells Fargo) has the crappiest password policy of any site I use, I wouldn't trust them to handle my passwords. Passwords will be accepted case-insensitive, so they're losing entropy and likely have the password stored plaintext somewhere.

That being said, I do have a safe deposit box with backups of important documents and a KeePass DB. The KeePass DB isn't synced as often as my local copies, but does get synced whenever I change passwords on any crucial site. I do have a copy on onedrive, but if I lose access to my password manager I won't be able to login to onedrive to access it. It's a little bit of work, but there are certain things that are definitely worth backing up in a secure location. Plus, there's a printed copy of my KeePass credentials and access information for relatives in case I'm gone.