Should I Upgrade

@sailor0703

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback and for sticking with 1Password for so many years! As my colleague Tommy mentioned, 1Password memberships are the future of 1Password and we're no longer planning to support standalone vaults moving forward. Our founder Dave has a recent post where he talks about our decision regarding standalone vaults here: The future of local/standalone vaults — 1Password Support Community

With the launch of 1Password 8 for Mac, 1Password 7 for Mac is no longer supported and will only receive important security updates. We strongly encourage you to update to the latest and greatest version as soon as you have the chance.

I appreciate that you took the time to explain how your current setup works and the reasons for why you've continued to use older standalone vaults. If your main concern is security then I encourage you to take a second look at migrating to a 1Password membership. Unlike older standalone vaults that are only protected using your password, your 1Password account data is protected and encrypted using a secret that is derived from both your account password and your Secret Key. A regular user's password is usually about 40 bits of entropy (a measure of how strong a password is) because passwords need to be memorized, this puts a ceiling on the security of your standalone vault. On the other hand, the Secret Key (which does not have to be memorized) has 128 bits of entropy which makes it impossible to guess or crack using today's technology.

This makes using a 1Password account vault much more secure than using an older standalone vault. And in addition to the above, you're also able to further secure your 1Password account using two-factor authentication, something that you can't do with standalone vaults.

I really recommend taking the time to read through our Security Design white paper, we've exhaustively documented the technologies and strategies that we use to make it impossible for someone to access your 1Password account data if they don't have your account password and Secret Key. And we go pretty deep into the technical details of the cryptography and security practices that we use.

We're currently offering very large discounts on 1Password memberships to customers who have been longtime license users. If you're interested then you email our dedicated migration team at support+tradein@1password.com. After emailing in, you'll receive a reply from BitBot, our friendly support assistant, with a support ID that looks something like [#ABC-12345-678]. Please post the Support ID here and I'll make sure that your email gets to our migration team so that they can offer you a heavily discounted membership. 😊