bitwarden/core
Core
This project is a password management backend designed to store and synchronize encrypted credentials across multiple devices and client applications. It serves as a secure central server that enables the management of secret vaults and password data.
The system supports self-hosted secret storage, allowing users to run a private vault on their own hardware to maintain control over their data. It facilitates cross-platform credential syncing to keep passwords updated in real time across various operating systems.
The backend is built with a REST-based API gateway, token-based session management, and relational database persistence. It utilizes client-side encryption to ensure the server does not see plaintext secrets and employs asynchronous background processing for long-running tasks.
Deployment is handled through container-based images, specifically supporting dockerized server deployment for consistent environments across different hosting platforms.
Features
- Password Managers - Provides a secure backend for storing and synchronizing encrypted password data across multiple devices.
- Relational Database Persistence - Uses relational database persistence to store structured user accounts and encrypted vault metadata.
- RESTful - Features a RESTful API gateway to manage data synchronization and authentication across multiple clients.
- Client-Side Encryption - Ensures server privacy by encrypting sensitive data on the user device before transmission.
- Credential Vaults - Offers secure credential vaults to encrypt and synchronize sensitive secrets across multiple platforms.
- Cross-Platform Credential Management - Facilitates cross-platform credential management to keep encrypted passwords synchronized across different operating systems.
- Self-Hosted Vaults - Supports self-hosted secret storage, allowing users to maintain full control of their private vaults on own hardware.
- Token-Based Authentication - Implements token-based authentication to maintain secure user sessions between the client and server.
- Container Deployment - Provides container-based deployment to ensure consistent runtime environments across different host servers.
- Docker Container Deployments - Utilizes Docker container deployments to ensure consistent backend infrastructure across different hosting platforms.
- Starter Kits - Infrastructure backend for password management.
