Amir Pakdel

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Password Manager

Keeping track of passwords sucks.

I am testing some Free Password Managers in order to find the best one that satisfies my personal needs. In this section I am going to write a brief review about each one and also I am going to include some screenshots.

One thing that I have found out so far is that, unfortunately, something no password manager currently offers is a way to store those blasted “additional credentials” and “security questions” that financial institutions are demanding nowadays.

Moreover, if you have been using the built-in password management of Firefox (as I was used to do), Password Exporter is a Firefox add-on that allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported somewhere else.

However, there are some password managers that I am not going to use:

KeePass 2.x is written completely in C# using the .NET framework^{http://keepass.info/devstatus.html#nodotnet}.
LastPass uses encrypted online storage at third party site

KeePassX

Tuesday, 06 July 2010 06:43 Amir Pakdel

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Cross Platform Password Manager

Testbed Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid)
Installation: Via APT
Version: 0.4.3-1
Description:
KeePassX 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 algorithms AES or Twofish.
Homepage: http://www.keepassx.org/

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 July 2010 15:01

KDE Wallet

Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:05 Amir Pakdel

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Secure password wallet manager for KDE 4

Testbed Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) / slackware64-13.1
Installation: Via APT / Installed by default
Version: 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu1
Description: The KDE Wallet system provides a secure way to store passwords and other secret information, allowing the user to remember only a single KDE Wallet password instead of numerous different passwords and credentials.
KWallet Manager is a utility for viewing and editing information stored in the KDE Wallet. This package is part of the KDE 4 utilities module.
Homepage: http://utils.kde.org/projects/kwalletmanager/

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 July 2010 14:58

Revelation

Tuesday, 29 June 2010 09:50 Amir Pakdel

GNOME2 Password manager

Testbed Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid)
Installation: Via APT
Version: 0.4.11-5ubuntu1
Description: Revelation is a password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop. It organizes accounts in a tree structure, and stores them as AES-encrypted XML.
Homepage: http://oss.codepoet.no/revelation/

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 July 2010 14:55

GPass

Tuesday, 29 June 2010 07:25 Amir Pakdel

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The password manager for GNOME2

Testbed Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid)
Installation: Via APT
Version: 0.5.0-2
Description: GPass is a simple GNOME application, that lets you manage a collection of passwords. The password collection is in an encrypted file, protected by a master-password.
Homepage: http://projects.netlab.jp/gpass/

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 July 2010 12:58

Seahorse

Monday, 28 June 2010 13:11 Amir Pakdel

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Encryption Made Easy

Testbed Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid)
Installation: Via APT
Version: 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
Description:
Seahorse is a front end for GnuPG - the Gnu Privacy Guard program - that integrates to the GNOME desktop. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.
Homepage: http://projects.gnome.org/seahorse/

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 July 2010 14:42