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by vitus 1025 days ago
> What I found was a lot of people made security assumptions and never revisited those assumptions. Or never fully did.

I appreciate that KeePassXC has a feature to audit your passwords (Database -> Database Reports -> Health Check), which tells you which of your passwords are weak / should be changed.

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-08-15-keepassxc-password-hea... for more details (the threshold for "good" has since been bumped from 65 -> 75). The score corresponds to bits of entropy, with penalties for things like password reuse.

(It also has HIBP integration if you want to perform a one-off check that none of your important passwords have been compromised.)

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Underrated feature, really. And most folks don't even know it's there. It also shows your health level on each password entry in the normal vault lists as a color square and when you open your entry as a colored line.
Doesn’t LastPass have this as well?
Seems like it (the "Security Dashboard"). In fact, it looks like it uses the same standard library for calculating entropy (zxcvbn). I didn't know offhand, since I've never used LastPass.

My point is that if your password manager allows you to readily identify which of your passwords are insecure / have been compromised, that's a very useful tool to revisit any previous security assumptions you may have had.

If that feature were to be implemented truthfully, it would have to report “go and change all of these; we were compromised and your master password was probably not secure enough” (i.e. based on the master password’s strength in addition to that of stored passwords).