Wednesday, 6 December 2006

KeePassX - Secure Personal Data Management

KeePassX

(http://keepassx.sourceforge.net)

KeePassX is an application for people with extremely high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, and is cross platform.

KeePassX saves many different information, for example, user names, passwords, URLs, attachments, and comments in one single database. The user can define titles and icons for each single entry, or sort the entries into groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database.

KeePassX comes with a utility for secure password generation. The generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. People who require or like to have their password change frequently will appreciate this feature.

The complete database is always encrypted either with AES or Two fish encrypted algorithm using a 256 bit key. Therefore, the saved information can be considered secure. KeePassX uses a database format that is compatible with KeePass Password Safe.

Features

1. Customizable management of data and password.

2. Search function to search either in specific groups or in complete database

3. Database security with password/key-file/both access only

4. Automatic generation of secure password and a quality indicator for chosen passwords

5. Upcoming features are network support with multi user capabilities and also browser integration.

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