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Do you trust VPNs? Because they are the same idea with a slight twist. VPNs encrypt data before it leaves your computer and decrypts it when it arrives at the destination.

1Password and the like encrypt data before it leaves your computer, stores it for however long you want, and then decrypts it when it the data is copied to your computer.



VPNs use (I think) some kind of synchronous key-exchange handshake. That doesn't work with storage part in the middle.


1Password's security model is pretty well thought out. The goal is to make it as impossible to decrypt the data you are storing as possible.

https://support.1password.com/1password-security/




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