Tracking one password is easy, but tracking dozens or even hundreds of passwords can be a problem. It's difficult to write down so many passwords, but writing them all down defeats the primary goal of keeping passwords discrete. Tracking one password is easy, but tracking dozens or even hundreds of passwords can be a problem. It's difficult to write down so many passwords, but writing them all down defeats the primary goal of keeping passwords discrete.
KeePass Password Security is a new open source/free software project that runs on 32-bit Windows systems. It is designed to help people manage and protect various types of passwords. A person or an organization can store any number of passwords in a program, and the program can also store any number of passwords in a database with very strong Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)/Twofish encryption algorithms to ensure that it cannot be cracked. When the program is running, the password is encrypted in memory, so even caching the program's memory to disk does not compromise security.
KeePass usually works by using a master password or password segment to unlock the database. It can also use a physical password disk, such as a removable USB "pen" drive or floppy disk, as the database key. Even for higher security levels, you can combine the two approaches. Passwords themselves can be organized and represented, grouped, or arranged hierarchically according to a variety of different sorting/finding criteria.
You can export the password list (only if you really need to do this!), import passwords from a CSV file, transfer them between two instances of the program, or generate them on demand. (If you need to generate an entire password list for a new installation in your enterprise, this is one way to do it.)
Here's one of the program's best features: you can use it to automatically fill password fields (for example, in web page forms) without having to type anything. The password itself is not exposed.
The program also has a plug-in architecture, which makes it possible to extend the basic functionality of the program. Some similar plug-ins have been written - for example, XML importer. In addition, the author has created resource files for the program in multiple languages, including Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Hebrew.
The entire project is open source, which also leads to possible threats to the program. The latest version is 0.98b, but don't be intimidated by the 0.x version number: the program is very functional and reliable