Recommendation - KeePass
Nov 1st, 2006 by ck
As a heavy Interbutt Internet user, I’ve too many login/passwords to keep and remember. Forums, webmail accounts, blogs, online banking, ISP password, all together 40 of them.
Because of the following reasons, I can’t have the same universal login/password for all my online accounts:-
- Difference in policies, for example, Citibank Malaysia has a very unique requirement that login/password cannot have more than two consecutive characters or numbers
- Security reason - if one of my password information is stolen, the thief will be able to access all my webmails, banking site etc…now that’s serious
It is indeed a pain in the ass to remember each and every of them, if I’ve such a good memory, I would utilize it somewhere else :) I had been looking for a good password manager but most of them are not really what I need (for example, Firefox password manager is too simple for me), until I found KeePass (listen, it’s KeePass, not KeepAss)
KeePass is a free/open-source 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-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish) (paragraph quoted from KeePass main site)
There are a lot more for you to try out and I’m not going to explain each of them. Experience it instead!
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
Below are some of the screenshots I’ve captured from this open-source baby
[...] If you’ve too many passwords to remember, use a reliable password safe like KeePass. [...]
[...] If you’ve too many passwords to remember, use a reliable password safe like KeePass. [...]