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I love Bitwarden, but this move is something that I don't like that much because it fragments more the way we have to share passwords between people / companies.

For some reason GPG frontends (such as Keybase) aren't a trending thing, and therefore the average guy in IT doesn't even know how to deal with an encrypted gpg file - let alone creating one given my public key. Unfortunately it seems like emails are more straight forward, or encrypted e2e messages via Signal / Telegram / you name it.

I would very much appreciate if somebody created something like Keybase and made it popular - this is a security improvement I would love to see in everyone's life. Things like Bitwarden Send, unfortunately, are probably not going to be the best solution to this problen and not even strong enough (e.g: not E2E encrypted). I wouldn't feel safe in using it to be honest.

In any case, everything is definitely better than sharing credentials in plain text, so there is that :-)




The only time I, and probably many others, have used GPG is to install R on linux. So I guess you can thank the problematic installation procedure for R on linux for some exposure to GPG.




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