I rely on Bitwarden (slooowly migrating from... a spreadsheet...) and am thinking of keeping a master backup to be SyncThing-synchronized across all my devices, but I'm not sure of how to secure the SyncThing-synchronized files' local access if any one of my Windows or Android units got stolen and somehow cracked into or something. I'm curious about how others handle theirs. Thanks in advance for sharing!

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[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is syncing the .kbdx files using Syncthing unsafe?

[–] not_amm@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Syncing files that you may open in both (or more) devices at the same time is unsafe with any service, but you can manage to avoid sync conflicts with KeePass if you do not open the same file at the same time or open the Android app in read-only mode. I've only had like 3-4 conflict files this year and they weren't important.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 3 points 7 months ago

@not_amm And I think Keepass (XC) has a merge function which can very easily resolve these conflicts.

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do the files pass through their servers unprotected? I don't really understand how Syncthing works under the hood.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 months ago

From https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#what-is-syncthing (bolding mine)

We believe your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored. Therefore Syncthing does not upload your data to the cloud but exchanges your data across your machines as soon as they are online at the same time.