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Keepass uses .NET, so is dependant on the mono framework etc on non-Windows.

KeepassX is no longer maintained.

KeepassXC is maintained and more featured, it's also not dependant on .NET.

For mac users, there's also MacPass (https://macpassapp.org), which is Keepass compatible.

Seeing the issue for Yubikey still open after 6 years, it doesn't inspire any confidence https://github.com/MacPass/MacPass/issues/90

Wouldn't this sort of software be better written in a safe language like C# as opposed to C++?

no how else would we get your passwords?

It runs locally, and if the attacker has that much access, in most scenarios there isn't anything stopping your adversary from just logging your keystrokes and curling the keystore to a remote server.

Yes and no. In a language like C++ you might have more control on encrypting and zeroing out sensitive memory.

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