Ever Lost Your Kee? Ever Forget a Password?
Managing my passwords has become a point of frustration and fear.
Email accounts, client accounts, ftp accounts, banking and much more… ever forgot your password. Of course system administrators are great at forcing secure passwords that include unnatural characters and numbers (a good practice by-the-way). It only makes sense that a good password is also a hard password to remember.
Then comes the warning… don’t use secure and highly sensitive passwords at websites or other “not so secure” locations that may be vulnerable. Perhaps you are in a similar boat as me? I have hundreds of client accounts, hosting control panels, email services, servers, etc. etc. and there is now way to keep all of the user names and passwords.
Enter KeePass
As noted on the KeePass website:
“KeePass is a password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). For more information, see the features page. “
I have been using KeePass for the last couple of years and I love it! I like that the user interface is straight forward and intuitive and I like that it is free. Free as in OpenSource. In fact is is OSI Certified.
The author of the software, Dominik Reichl says,
“in my opinion all software that has something to do with security should be open-source ”
KeePass is now in version 1.11 and comes ready Windows as well as a new version for your memory stick. There are also several community contributions for PocketPC, Linux/Mac and even BlackBerry! I have to try it on my Blackberry!
Visit the KeePass site at this link and you can download the software.
Hey – why not get Skype now and give me a call?
Cheers -
David A. West
Dave Cree on August 15th, 2008
Hey Dave, This is great! I’ve been using Roboform now for several years but it gets expensive when you’re running at 3 computers. I’m going to give this a try. The only thing that Roboform has that I really like and hope it works in keypass, is an automated form filler….this feature saves me hours of typing in the same info over and over again.