KeePass 2.14 released

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=95013&id=295786

by thefox • 16 years ago

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zdw2• 16 years ago

other sysadmins - don't you hate how all your users end up using very simple or duplicate passwords on everything, causing you eventual security problems?

If so, why isn't this, or something like it, preinstalled on all the client computers you have?

w1ntermute5• 16 years ago

Because most users wouldn't use it. How do you access your passwords on a computer that doesn't have Keepass installed? I think only LastPass has a way of doing this. And sysadmins don't like trusting 3rd party services.

mike4u2• 16 years ago

The Firefox password sync comes preinstalled and is very secure.

In addition, for complex logins, we use the iMacros for Firefox (open source) "bookmarklets", they can be sync'ed via Firefox as well.

zdw2• 16 years ago

   How do you access your passwords on a computer that 
   doesn't have Keepass installed?

That's why you preinstall it, or put it everywhere, or use an OS that already has something similar installed (Apple's "keychain" software).

As far as people not using it, that's a social problem that would need to be addressed by company policy. The role of sysadmins in this is providing the tools to allow best practices, and to encourage their adoption.

roel_v2• 16 years ago

How do you access your passwords on a computer that doesn't have Keepass installed?

- By keeping the pw database in a Dropbox folder, along with a standalone version of keepass itself. No need to ever install. - By using a phone version of keepass to access the Dropbox pw database, thus always ensuring access to passwords. - In emergency situations, by downloading the above-mentioned db and software through the dropbox website, ready to use on any machine.

(all of the above are made more difficult by the switch of 2.x series to .Net, a switch without a good reason, too, so caveat emptor etc. Keepass once looked like a great project but this dichotomy is a disaster.)

gregd• 16 years ago

Because we use LastPass instead.

mariana• 16 years ago

Why not use something very simple like SuperGenPass? http://supergenpass.com/

solutionyogi• 16 years ago

SuperGenPass is good if all you care about are website passwords. I also need to save passwords for FTP/SSH/Internal Business Apps. SuperGenPass won't be helpful and I would definitely prefer to use one solution for all my password needs.

Lagged2Death• 16 years ago

There's a thread on StackOverflow about the safety of SuperGenPass:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554224/is-the-bookmarklet...

I thought the criticisms by "Mike" were pretty convincing, although I'm not an expert in software security or cryptography.

Starting with the source of a simpler JavaScript password generator:

http://www.angel.net/~nic/passwdlet.domain.html

I did a little noodling around and found it's perfectly practical to use even several thousand iterations of a newer hash algorithm (SHA2-256) to produce passwords, rather than a few dozen iterations of an obsolete one. That should address some of the cryptographic concerns. It's also perfectly possible for the script to accept the master password through a JavaScript popup rather than from a text box inserted into the current page. That should address concerns about a "malicious webmaster" type attack.

So some of the most important criticisms of SuperGenPass (which is undeniably very slick and pleasant to use) are at least addressable.

gregwebs2• 16 years ago

KeePassX has been available for Linux for a while now. http://keepassx.sourceforge.net/

I may try running kepass on Mono now to get all the features of version 2

wwortiz2• 16 years ago

Mono and keepass has been working great for me on linux, you do have to install a few extra things to get it working on ubuntu and xdotool with a higher version than is supplied by 10.10 if you want autofill.

gregwebs2• 16 years ago

I am seeing buggy behavior on Ubuntu- the File drop down isn't droppping down. It also won't import my version 1 db, telling me that must be done from Windows.

I will probably stick with KeePassX- there isn't anything wrong with it and none of the Keepass version 2 features seem look like game changers.

wanderr• 16 years ago

Did they ever add a way to make it not clear your clipboard after pasting? I know you could delay the clearing but that just resulted in randomly losing stuff from the clipboard while working, even more annoying than the original problem.

snitko• 16 years ago

I really like KeepPass and I use it on all of my computers (Ubuntu and MacOSX). It's so awesome that it's available on all three major platforms including Windows. What I'd like to see, though, is iPhone, Android and webapps - all syncing through a remote server (Dropbox, maybe?). That would make this thing absolutely awesome.

Kejistan• 16 years ago

There already are versions of KeePass available on Android and iPhone (and windows phones too it seems). So I guess the only thing missing at this point is a webapp version.

alanpca• 16 years ago

I recently remedied a problem that I was having, which was importing my Chrome bookmarks into Keepass. I figure that this could also help some of the folks on HN, so here is the info:

writeup: http://alanp.ca/blog/2011/01/01/export-google-chrome-passwor... Github: https://github.com/alanpca/chrome2keepass

KeePass 2.14 released

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