Comments on: Password Management?

By: MLsite

MLsite — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:20:19 +0000

After reading your blog, I want to suggest a site called Mashedlife. Www.mashedlife.com is an online password manager. It does not require any plug-ins or downloads, so it runs completely off the browser. It works with any brower: PC, mac, and even iPhone. This site has lots of interesting features such as One-click log-in, Yubikey compatibility, Facebook application, and much more. The site is extremely secure with verifications from Trust-e and the Better Business Bureau. Also, all information on the site is kept private. For those of you who donâ€t know what the Yubikey is, itâ€s a USB device that generates a random 32 character password. This is used for super secure logins. Just plug it in, touch the button, and you have a virtually impossible to hack password. Its that simple. So, I urge you to give it a try and see how you like it.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:55:29 +0000

+1 for keepassx. I use it at home and have the portable apps version for my, bleh, windows box at work. It took a while to load all the passwords and other info but once done it’s easy to use.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:20:57 +0000

I like Revelation, but KeePassX is also quite impressive. I have a blog post on this very topic, and the comments there may help in your decision as well.

http://matthewhelmke.net/index.php/2008/01/22/29-how-do-i-remember-all-these-passwords

By: TerribleTrouble

TerribleTrouble — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:48:25 +0000

Keepass, as other users have mentioned, works on on the shockingly awful Windows Mobile Phones too, which until Opie gets going, is what we have to live with!

By: michael greb

michael greb — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:58:13 +0000

I use pwsafe from the command line. Keepass does look interesting though so I’m going to definetly have to check it out.

By: ari

ari — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:04:16 +0000

keepassX (the native linux port of keepass, also runs in osx). super cool, brand new release last week, check it out.

http://www.keepassx.org/

By: David

David — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:52:47 +0000

Passwordsafe sounds like a Windows implementation of an essential tool. I have been wondering the same thing — and I’m using OS X for much of my work, so I need something that runs cross-platform.

A quick Web search for the word ‘passwordsafe’ and the phrase ‘os x’ turned up Password Gorilla, which is pased on PasswordSafe. Password Gorilla is open source freeware, runs on Windows, OS X and *nix.

It has a GUI — it’s written in TCL/TK. The GUI isn’t fancy or pretty, but for the price….

URL: http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/

By: Claudio Miranda

Claudio Miranda — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:50:08 +0000

I recommend using pgp to read and write password file. Command line driven, like this

gpg -i -d -u my@token.com crypt_file.asc |grep -i mypassw

By: Tony Yarusso

Tony Yarusso — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:19:36 +0000

I’ve been using Revelation as well, but as noted, that’s a Gnome app, and therefore has a GUI. What I’d really like to see is something that had both CLI and GUI (Gnome) options, or two different applications that used the same storage format, so that I could access things either way. Let me know if you find anything like that that you like…you know where to find me. :)

By: Thomas King

Thomas King — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:11:34 +0000

Hi all,
I use MobileKnox and DesktopKnox to manage my passwords. MobileKnox runs on any J2ME-enabled cellphone and DesktopKnox runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. As I carry my cellphone anyway with me, so I have my passwords with me as well. Although it is possible to enter new entries to MobileKnox I mainly use DesktopKnox to alter account data. MobileKnox and DesktopKnox use an easy-to-setup synchronization procedure which keeps the data up-to-date. Furthermore, both programs use AES-256 to encrypt the data.

Just give it a try: http://www.mobileknox.com

Thomas