Importing CSV fields from the LastPass export file The following image shows KeePassXC’s import CSV fields screen with the column mapping applied as earlier specified: KeePassXC Created: LastPass Not present in CSV file KeePassXC Last modified: LastPass Not present in CSV file The mapping itself is rather straightforward. The next image shows the entry for the converted “database note type” from LastPass (secure notes) after running the import. KeePassXC 2.3.4 running on Arch Linux x86_64. KeePassXC also provides official browser extensions for Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium and Vivaldi. I’ve been experimenting with the Firefox extension and found it to be working as advertised, without any complications. The animated gif below shows the browser extension in its full glory. Please refer to How to connect KeePassXC-Browser with KeePassXC for a quick tutorial on configuring browser integration. My thanks to the KeePassXC developers for providing us with the best cross-platform free and open-source password manager. Goodbye LastPass and thanks for all the fish.I've recently been trying out KeePass 2 as an alternative to LastPass, in this post I'm going to go briefly into why I made the switch, and detail how you can do so with a fairly minimal amount of pain. If you're just interested in how to migrate, you can skip straight to the how section. The two major reasons I'm trying something else are security and performance. That said: I think any password manager is much better than the alternative of manually managing passwords. I also think LastPass is pretty good, I've used it historically because I like it. In terms of the why I'm trying something else, these reasons will apply to pretty much any browser extension based password manager. Password managers running in the browser have an attack surface which includes JavaScript and the DOM. This doesn't mean these managers are busted, but it makes the job of securing them that much harder. For example, LastPass recently have had some issues with their browser extenstion brought to light: see here and here. That said, they have swiftly dealt with the vulnerabilities raised, which is a great thing. LastPass is in good company here, Project Zero have shown up issues with other password manager browser extensions such as 1Password and Dashlane. These issues too have been fixed, but they can exist in the first place because of the design of these extension based managers. KeePass doesn't integrate into browsers (though it has plugins that do so). In switching I'm hoping to guard myself against vulnerabilities such as those above. I'm going to lose out on things like autofill. However, at this stage this is a trade I'm at least willing to try out. I've found the LastPass extension to be a bit of a performance hog. In Firefox I would often run into janks when using IRCCloud (web based IRC client) with the LastPass addon installed. Aside from specific cases like this, LastPass adds also an inherent overhead which I'm not sure I'm cool with.
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