Thursday, April 17, 2008

KeePass 1.11 - Open Source Password Manager

KeePass 1.11 (Windows, Open Source, 1.3MB) [download via FileHippo] is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.

Changes:

  • Master key transformations (rounds) are now computed in two threads; on dual/multi core processors this results in almost twice the performance as before (by doubling the amount of rounds you'll get the same waiting time as in 1.10, but the protection against dictionary and guessing attack is doubled)
  • On Windows Vista, some of the message boxes are now displayed as modern task dialogs
  • Database files are now verified (read and hashed) after writing them to disk (in order to prevent data loss caused by damaged/broken devices and/or file systems)
  • When saving databases to removable media, KeePass now tries to lock and unlock the volume, which effectively flushes all system caches related to this drive (this prevents data loss caused by removing USB sticks without correctly unmounting in Windows first; but it only works when no other program is using the drive)
  • Improved database file writing algorithm (small block writes and explicit flushing)
  • And many more improvements.

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