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FairTrust Vault: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

FairTrust Vault is a centralised professional password manager from FairTrust. Credentials and other authentication data are stored in an encrypted central vault (AES-256 GCM). Each workstation holds a local vault, so the tool keeps working offline. It detects login forms in web applications and Terminal Server sessions and fills them in, generates complex unique passwords, and rejects passwords found in dictionaries of compromised passwords. Shared vaults let teams use shared credentials without seeing the passwords themselves. The vendor logs administration actions and user access to the stored resources. Individuals can test a free version.

FairTrust SAS is based in Rennes, France; no parent company is stated. The vendor says its products come in a cloud or on-premises architecture, but the Vault page does not state which applies or where data is hosted; this should be asked of the vendor. The privacy policy states that personal data is hosted in the EU or EEA, with possible non-EU subcontractors for specialised services under standard contractual clauses.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 15, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to FairTrust Vault

The European alternatives to FairTrust Vault come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with FairTrust Vault

FairTrust Vault is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so FairTrust Vault scores best on data residency.

FairTrust Vault is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs FairTrust Vault together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to FairTrust Vault?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to FairTrust Vault include AuthPass, Avira Password Manager and Dashlane. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to FairTrust Vault?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to FairTrust Vault include AuthPass, gopass, KeePass and KeePassDX. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is FairTrust Vault GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

FairTrust Vault is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes FairTrust Vault an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

No public compliance evidence has been recorded for this vendor yet. Do you know its DPA or subprocessor list? Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 15, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

In the changelog

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Digital sovereignty in Password Manager

Password Manager: Password vault — generate, store and autofill passwords. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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