Re: Password Security

[Gary Dobbins <dobbins () ND EDU>]

Another good one is KeePass (SourceForge).  Its fan community has also
produced a PDA (WinMobile) version, and many features.  Confusingly
similar to PWSafe.

Shalla, Kevin wrote:
> That sounds like a handy one for certain situations, however most of the
> time I need to store passwords that I'll be entering from my computer, and
> I'd rather not have to look up the password on the Palm, then retype it on
> the computer.  Password safe (written by Bruce Schneier) is a good free
> program that stores them on your computer.  Once you open the safe, you
> double-click the desired listing, and the password is put into the Windows
> paste buffer (you don't even see it, so you can even do this on a
> projector while others are watching).
>
> On Wed, October 24, 2007 5:38 pm, Paul Russell wrote:
>
> > On 10/23/2007 19:07, Vicky Walker wrote:
> >
> > > David's response leads me to ask what the general consensus is about the
> > > safety of Password Safes and what are the best ones out there today?
> > For the past several years, I and some of my co-workers have been using a
> > product called STRIP (Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords), for
> > Palm OS. I believe it was written by a sysadmin who could not find a
> > password-keeper application that met his needs.
> >
> > See http://www.identicentric.com/products/strip/ for details.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
> > OIT Messaging Services Team
> > University of Notre Dame
> > prussell () nd edu

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 Gary Dobbins, CISSP -- Director, Information Security
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