RE: password mgmt

[sean.kelly () lanston com]

> A better alternative is to use an encryption package. I've 
> heard people say
> good things about a product called "ReadIt" that runs under 
> HackMaster. It
> has an optional encryption module that uses 128 bit IDEA, and 
> it hashes
> passphrases to generate keys. While this still isn't the 
> strongest thing in
> the world (many peoples' passphrases will probably turn out 
> to be their
> kids' names) it's worlds better than native Palm security.

I recently downloaded an app called "Safe."
(http://palm.pair.com/palmsafe.html)  It's free, the source code is avaible
for public review, uses triple-DES, and operates on memos in the MemoPad.
Downside is that it doesn't have a PC-based portion, but I don't think it
should be that hard to get a triple-DES package for the PC that could
decrypt the files.  It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of other
apps, but the fact that it uses a good encryption scheme and the author is
actually confident enough to make the source code available sold it for me.

Sean