Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Product Review - Keypass Password Safe

Accessing various public shared computers and typing my password on them had been a concern for me. And this concern was increasing day after day, as many of the computers that i used to access my accounts were under remote access, which the admins used to unlock the computer and make it available for access. Because of this, the on-screen keyboard was extremely unsafe. To add to this were the constant risks of viruses, trojans, spywares and desktop-monitoring softwares that might give out my passwords.

So i decided to go around the net and find some password vault software that would make it really convinient for me to store and fill passwords without typing on the keyboard, or the on-screen keyboard. While surfing, i downloaded KeyPass Password Safe. I don't remember from which site i downloaded it, but i would be really thankful to it. The installer was a few MB's in size, and small. For those of you who would like to see a screenshot of the running program, here's it.







The program has a brilliant UI, and a easy to understand system. Just choose a master password, right click, add an entry, enter the username and password, and the URL for the site where you'd like to fill in the password. The rest should be considered as done. Whenever you need to write the whole userid and password, just open the database, right click on the value you'd like to fill the userid password columns with, and click "Perform Auto-Type", and the password will be automatically filled in that page. Though the program does not fill in passwords for embedded or pop-in sub windows, or scripts, but words for the regular textbox based authentication columns (like Blogger's).

Anyhow, after using this software for some weeks now, i can say that i can leave all my password related worries to this software. Easy software, great UI, it has been the program that i should have had in my pen drive years back.

I'd rate this program 4.8 out of 5.

What would you say - do you think the same, or have a different opinion, try the program and feel free to share your comments.

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