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I refer you to the techdirt article linked above. If you upload a KeePass file to dropbox now, you may be vulnerable to a way of cracking keepass files available at some future date.



Yup; but I'd say you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the pretty damned good.

KeePass' encryption is quite solid -- if it starts to show some cracks in the face of quantum computers or whatnot somewhere in the future, I can always upgrade and change my passwords so the old database isn't valuable any more.

That'd be a PITA, but I don't expect this to happen -- nor for the govt to come up with a huge vulnerability that no one else sees -- so that's the kind of bet I'm comfortable taking.


This shouldn't matter here, if you regularly rotate passwords and KeePass itself is regularly updated to fix security vulnerabilities.




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