Wednesday, March 14, 2012

KeePass Password Safe Portable

your passwords, secured to go

KeePass Portable is the popular KeePass Password Safe packaged as a portable app, so you can securely carry your email, internet and other passwords with you. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

  • KeePass supports the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, Rijndael) and the Twofishalgorithm to encrypt its password databases.Both of these ciphers are regarded as being very secure.AES e.g. became effective as a U.S. Federal government standardand is approved by the National Security Agency (NSA)for top secret information.
  • The complete database is encrypted, not only the password fields. So, your user names,notes, etc. are encrypted, too.
  • SHA-256 is used as password hash. SHA-256 is a 256-bit cryptographically secure one-way hashfunction. Your master password is hashed using this algorithm and its output is used as key forthe encryption algorithms.
  • In contrast to many other hashing algorithms, no attacks are known yet against SHA-256.
  • Protection against dictionary and guessing attacks: by transformingthe final master key very often, dictionary and guessing attacks can be madeharder.
  • In-Memory Passwords Protection: Your passwords are encrypted while KeePassis running, so even when the operating system caches the KeePassprocess to disk, this wouldn't reveal your passwords anyway.
  • [2.x] Protected In-Memory Streams: When loading the inner XML format,passwords are encrypted using a session key.
  • Security-Enhanced Password Edit Controls: KeePass is the first passwordmanager that features security-enhanced password editcontrols. None of the available password edit control spies work against these controls.The passwords entered in those controls aren't even visible in the process memory of KeePass.
  • The master key dialog can be shown on a secure desktop, on which almost nokeylogger works. Auto-Type can be protected against keyloggers, too.
Download
- 2012/3/15, updated version 2.18: Portable version download
                                    Installer version download 

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