The Bitwarden clients handle encryption locally prior to ever being sent to any server, however there could arise an issue where Bitwarden clients update in such a way that things break between the Vaultwarden server and how Bitwarden clients expects certain behaviors.

This will also still require you to download and use the free Bitwarden client applications for browser, desktop, or mobile in conjunction with the 3rd party product as Vaultwarden does not provide their own. While the server API codebase is compatible, it should be noted there are some features that may be missing. Vaultwarden is an unofficial 3rd party product and is not affiliated with Bitwarden. I believe it can even be ran on something as small as a Raspberry Pi. The Vaultwarden code is hosted on Github and is written in Rust which makes it ideal for much smaller installs where hardware requirements may be sparse. Specifically the server API which the clients can also communicate to in the instance of self-hosted installs. This article linked documents how to install Vaultwarden inside of docker on your Synology NAS, there are a few other articles I have seen online which references the two interchangeably.ĭue to Bitwarden’s awesome open-source codebase and community aspect Vaultwarden is a spin-off, or fork of the greater Bitwarden codebase.

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