[Hidden-tech] Password managers

[Jan Werner]

Online password managers are designed primarily for logging on to web 
sites, which may be all you need. I don't use one (see below), but have 
been investigating them recently and am considering using KeePass. I 
like the fact that it is open source (which means that someone will keep 
it going if the current folk don't) and because it offers true 
portability - you can run it off a USB stick as well as any kind of 
device or computer.

I prefer to use a program that allows me to keep lots of other personal 
information securely, even if it is somewhat less convenient for web 
surfing. I've been using eWallet (http://www.iliumsoft.com/ewallet) for 
that purpose for many years. I have yet to find anything close when it 
comes to eWallet's flexibility of storing, organizing and retrieving 
nearly any kind of  personal information.  You can also have any number 
of wallets, each with their own password, and copy or move them around, 
or even keep them on portable media (although the program itself doesn't 
run from portable media), so it's a good choice for situations where 
different people share one or more computers.

My one complaint with eWallet is that, while it has excellent clients 
for Windows and Mac, as well as for iPhone/iPod and Blackberry, it lags 
somewhat on Android, which is what I now use on both phone and tablet.

They do have a good free Android viewer, but not a full-featured client, 
and the database sync doesn't work directly with Honeycomb (Android 3.x) 
on tablets.  I get around that by synching with my phone and copying the 
wallet file to the tablet, but that's probably not an option for most 
people. So even though I will certainly keep using eWallet to store 
information, including passwords, I may also start using KeePass (or 
something like it) for web surfing.

Jan Werner
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