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So Many Passwords – Not Enough Brain Capacity!

Posted on 12 June 2005 by Weblog in Business, IT Pro, Security
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As information technology becomes ever more impingent on our daily lives, it appears that the list of logins and passwords we must remember is becoming unmanageably long with a different account for every IT system we use: accounts for domain hosting; accounts for ftp access; accounts for websites; accounts for Windows systems; accounts for accounts; etc.

There is an answer to this dilemna for anonymity and security…

KeePass is an open source project over on Sourceforge.

KeePass - The password repository

Its features include:

  • Highly encrypted databases
  • Support of master passwords and key-disks
  • Runs on all Windows operating systems and doesn’t need to be installed
  • Export password list to TXT, HTML, XML or CSV files
  • Import from CSV, CodeWallet(Pro) TXT and Password Safe v2 TXT files
  • Easy database transfer
  • Support of password groups
  • Time fields and entry attachment support
  • Auto-type, global auto-type hot key combination and drag-n-drop support
  • Intuitive and secure Windows clipboard handling
  • Searching and sorting
  • Multi-language support
  • Strong random password generator
  • Low memory requirement
  • Plugin architecture
  • Open-Source!

It will fit on and run from a FlashDrive or other removable media without having to install it where and whenever you need it. There is also a version for PocketPC.

Is it secure? Its use of strong cryptography for encrypting the database does indeed make it pretty well secure… well as secure as current best practice. It is secure enough for RSL to start using it.

However, there are a few things that could improve it … but that’s another story, for another day!

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