Passwords / Passwörter

Alatar · Post by **Alatar** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:35 pm

If you are interested in a free and secure password safe (for windows) I recommend this program: http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html

Bruce Schneier (the initial author of this program) is a well known person, read http://www.schneier.com/index.html for details.

Remember:

- choose long passwords
- use digits, letters and special chars within your password
- don't give your password to someone else
- never, never use passwords you can find in a dictionary or passwords like your name or birthday

Alatar · Post by **Alatar** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 7:25 pm

Here are some detailed information from the ReadMe.txt:

Introduction:
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Password Safe is a password database utility. Like many other such
products, commercial and otherwise, it stores your passwords in an
encrypted file, allowing you to remember only one password (the "safe
combination"), instead of all the username/password combinations that
you use.

What makes Password Safe different? Three things:
1. Simplicity: Password Safe is designed to do one thing, and to do it
well. Start the application, enter your "combination", double-click on
the right entry - presto - the password is now on your clipboard,ready
for pasting.
2. Security: The original version was designed and written by Bruce
Schneier - 'nuff said.
3. Open Source: The source code for the project is available for
inspection. For more information, see http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net

Password Safe currently runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and
XP. Support for additional platforms is planned for future releases.

Downloading:
============
The latest & greatest version of Password Safe may be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfil ... p_id=41019

Installation:
=============
Nothing special. No "Setup", no dependencies, no annoying wizard, no
need to sacrifice a goat and/or reboot your computer. Just extract the
files (using WinZip, for example) to any directory, double-click on
the PasswordSafe.exe icon,and that's it. "Advanced" users may want to
create a shortcut to their desktop and/or Start menu.

License:
========
Password Safe is available under the restrictions set forth in the
standard "Artistic License". For more details, see the LICENSE file
that comes with the package.

Helping Out:
============
Please send all bugs and feature requests to the PasswordSafe user's
mailing list. You can subscribe via:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list ... safe-users

If you wish to contribute to the project by writing code and/or
documentation, please drop a note to the developer's mailing list:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list ... safe-devel

(Just to round out the list, there's also an announcement mailing list
where new releases are announced:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list ... e-announce)

Release Notes:
==============
For information on the latest features, bugfixes and known problems,
see the ReleaseNotes.txt file that comes with the package.

Credits:
========
- The original version of Password Safe was written by Bruce Schneier,
and was freely downloadable from Conterpane Lab's website. Thanks to
Bruce for writing a great little application, and for making the
source of release 1.7 publicly available as a SourceForge open source
project.
- Jim Russell first brought the code to SourceForge, setting up a nice
project and adding some minor features in release 1.9.0
- The current release has been brought to you by: Andrew Mullican,
Edward Quackenbush, Gregg Conklin, Graham Ullrich, and Rony
Shapiro. Karel (Karlo) Van der Gucht also contributed some of the
password policy code and some GUI improvements for 1.92.
- Finally, thanks to the folks at SourceForge for hosting this
project.