KeePass – Open Source Password Safe
Are you one of those people that has more Internet passwords than you know what to do with? Worse yet are you one of those people that keeps a written log of these passwords? How about those pin numbers or the personnel data – stored in Outlook notes??
KeePass is an open source password safe program with some excellent properties.
1. All data is stored in an encrypted file based on a single passphrase that you create. The passphrase “goodness” is displayed as you create it. BTW, as is the “goodness” of each password you save. So you get some regular reminders of just how poor our passwords normally are.
2. KeePass runs under all Windows OS flavors and does NOT have to be “installed” in Windows. This means no registry changes etc. A binary executable is available.
3. KeePass provides in-memory passwords protection. Your passwords are encrypted while KeePass is running, so even if Windows caches the KeePass process to disk, this wouldn’t reveal your passwords anyway.
4. And finally KeePass has security-enhanced password edit controls. KeePass is the first password safe that has security-enhanced password edit controls. None of the available password edit control spies work against the controls used in KeePass. The passwords entered in those controls aren’t even visible in the process memory of KeePass.
So, checkout the KeePass home page for many other features and for a more personel security.
BTW, for those with PDA’s there is also fully functional PDA version that can be synch’d with the PC version. Links to the PDA version are a the KeePass web site.
Posted: September 12th, 2005 under General.