Two Vendors, Two Keys: Keeping Passwords Outside Proton

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:30:00 +0400

This series has been about moving from Microsoft to Proton. One thing didn’t move, and was never going to: my password manager. Bitwarden was already in place across my household before any of this began, and it stayed where it was while the rest of my stack got rebuilt.

Proton has its own password manager, Proton Pass; on the face of it, consolidating onto it would have been the consistent move. I didn’t seriously consider it and this post is about why. It has very little to do with Pass itself and quite a lot to do with deliberately not keeping all the keys to my life under a single login.

Bitwarden on PeteMahon.net

Two Vendors, Two Keys: Keeping Passwords Outside Proton