password managers

[Dave Germiquet]

Someone mentioned KeePass but I thought it was only for windows but it has a
variety of platforms.  Its great. I think thats what I'm going to use
especially since there is an android port to it. You can copy the database
files to your android device.

Can these database files be hacked?

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > What do you recommend for password managers?
>
> For a long time, I used "GNU Keyring," an open source PalmOS-based
> app, which would happily sync with the X-based "JPilot" (which I
> *long* used, happily, as the analogue to Palm Desktop).
>
> When the Palm Treo died [sob!], this wasn't suitable for the
> Android-based phone I got as replacement.
>
> The "open-ish" options that are comparatively multi-platform these days
> are:
> a) Password Safe
>  - the original was written by Bruce Schneier, known for Blowfish and
> Twofish crypto algorithms
>  - There are various ports and compatible rewrites.
>  - Alas, none that are particularly nice on Android.
>  - Pretty viable on Maemo (e.g. - the Nokia Linux devices)
>
> b) KeePass
>  - Primarily a KDE-based password manager
>  - There's a seeming decent port to Android that both reads and writes
> password files
>
> I'm using KeePass these days.
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