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The question here is not whether you trust dropbox, but whether you trust keypass. If your password vault gives up its secrets when someone else gets hold of it, then you will want to find something else.
Keypass uses AES-256 for encryption, which remains the de facto standard, and SHA-256 to create a key from your passphrase along with a salt.
So the ...
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EDIT:
Easier way: View > Configure Columns... > Asterisks
This lets you change the setting and set a keyboard shortcut.
Or as it is pre-configured, just hit Ctrl+H!
I had the same question and have found a better solution thanks to answering this question.
The menu item seems to have disappeared somewhere during a version update.
To manually ...
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No.
If you forget this master password, all your other passwords in the database are lost, too. There isn't any backdoor or a key which can open all databases. There is no way of recovering your passwords.
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In the 'Edit Entry' window, click on the little box (show/hide password using asterisks) next to the password box. It will show the password in plain text.
KeePass will not remember this setting as default. If you want KeePass to always remember your setting, you should go to Tools > Options > Advanced and mark the checkbox of
Remember password ...
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You can create a copy of a password entry:
And then only use references for username and password in the new entry:
Then, adjust the URL in the new entry.
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I've been a long time KeePass user, and if I were tasked with justification, I'd probably do the following:
Skim the sites FAQ for all of their details about security. Everything I've seen there will practically sell itself.
Show the longevity and support for the project, indicating it isn't going to be dropped by the wayside anytime soon.
Show off a few ...
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Regarding the ability to use 'key files' with KeePass.
In order to generate the 256-bit key for the block ciphers, the Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-256 is used. This algorithm compresses the user key provided by the user (consisting of password and/or key file) to a fixed-size key of 256 bits. This transformation is one-way, i.e. it is computationally ...
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I am not familiar with Wine, but version 1.16 doesn't show up on this WineHQ listing for KeePass, so perhaps KeePass 1.16 isn't compatible.
However, there is cross-platform program KeePassX that was forked from KeePass for Windows that you might want to check out. How to install KeePassX on Ubuntu.
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KeePass pro version is .net and supports mono so runs fine on Windows, Mac and Linux, and supports opening files over ftp.
Alternatively you can use KeePass1/KeePassX with a Dropbox account, that way you don't have to open the file over FTP, you just allow Dropbox to sync the local copy of the file every time you make a change. (Dropbox supports Windows, ...
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Keepass does not encrypt files or folders, it is simply a tool for keeping your passwords safe and organised.
If you installed a program that locked and/or encrypted your files, a solution really depends on the program you used.
If it simply changed NTFS permissions or similar, it is a trivial task. If however you used something like True Crypt, you could ...
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If you've forgotten it because you just changed the master password, you can do what I do in the future:
Make a backup copy that uses the old password. Make sure this has the new password in it.
Change the real copy to use your new password
Keep the one that uses the old password around until you know the new one so well you don't even have to think about ...
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I usually just create different database files and share them with a Dropbox link. Having two different files with two different random keys. I'm using version 2.09.
I have a "personal.kdbx" database that has all my personal stuff and a "company-name.kdbx". I usually use the "key file" option to open the databases since it's easier to the people I share ...
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Well, doesn't seem like there were any, so I hacked together a quick php script to do it.
If anyone else needs to do it. Run this script, paste the exported csv in the textarea, and input the outputted csv file to keepass.
<?php
if (isset($_POST["submit"]))
{
//Loop through, build a multi array;
$parsedCSV = array();
//Columns (in order) to ...
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I run Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and KeePass Portable 2.0 works for me. It also appears to work for others from the later responses on this thread: [SOLVED] Mono & KeePass 2. People who initially complained about crashes have reported it to be working for them on the final Jaunty release.
As for installation, get the latest Portable Keepass Professional ...
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You can create a new custom profile
Click the Generate a Password button
Select Open Password Generator
Check the options you wish to use and then press the SAVE icon
Give your new profile a name and press okay
Once saved, your profile will be listed with the other options in your dropdown.
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May be there is a problem with your entry which you have made recently. So I'm going to answer you from start. Create a new entry and make sure that you have give the right title name Gmail. After this enter your username and password for you Gmail account.
Also you should have to enter the right URL of the login page but you can keep it blank also.
...
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I use the KeePass AutoType feature to log in to various RDP sessions in the network.
On the Auto-Type tab I add a custom sequence for a specific window.
To add the entry I use the default sequence but add {DOWN} to the beginning of it. This means that it doesn't matter what username is currently displayed in the security details as the {DOWN} sequence ...
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Check this comparison: http://www.tested.com/news/feature/3138-the-best-password-managers-for-your-android-phone/
I use keeppass with keeppassdroid on my android device. Big advantage for me is that it's opensource and free.
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If you have mono you don't need OS X packaged version of keepass, compiling from source is also unnecessary. Easiest way to test if 2.19 does what you need is to download zipped version of it.
When zip-package is extracted you can simply run:
mono Keepass.exe
IF latest version is working for you then creating a small script and adding it to dock to ...
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I work voluntarily on various IT related projects, where we are groups of people that share passwords, and the different groups all share their own KeePass databases via Dropbox. All users are then required to have a personal KeePass database wherein the key to the shared databases are stored. This allows us to have a very secure password on our shared ...
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On the first command you provided you should be referencing the .asc signature file - not the .exe file. The .exe file should also be residing in the same directory as the .asc file.
From the gpg man page:
--verify
Assume that the first argument is a signed file or a detached signature and verify it without generat-
ing any output. With no ...
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Use ChromePass to extract your passwords.
It is a portable application and does
not require any installation. Before
running ChromePass, close Google
Chrome and run it and wait for 1-2
minutes. It will display all the user
ids and passwords you have saved in
Google Chrome. These files can be
exported as txt and xml format.
However in ...
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Go to Tools / Generate Password
On the Settings tab, select the profile named "256-bit Hex Key"
Click the save button to the right of the profile name
It will ask for the name of the profile to save to, select "(Automatically generated password for new entries)" and click OK
Click OK again and try it!
(I'm using version 2.17, in case it's different in ...
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There's an auto-save option in Tools -> Options... -> Advanced. If this sometimes fails to work, it may be a bug. A way to mitigate this is to use a shorter auto-lock period so the database will be saved more frequently.
Also, KeeFox does auto-save when you save a new password from the browser. You may consider using it.
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There are different degrees of security, and the convenience of Dropbox versus the security of what you're trying to do are something you'll need to evaluate for yourself.
Also, security depends upon the weakest point. If any of the following are compromised, then your files are exposed:
You (forget to log out, leave your password on a sticky, share your ...
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1.x doesn't fulfill your first requirement: "need it to be compatible on many systems (linux, mac, windows xp/vista/7)". 1.x is Windows-only. 2.x, on the other hand, runs under .NET and Mono, so works on Windows, Linux, Mac -- anything that Mono works on.
2.x is the one that can work almost everywhere, not 1.x. Based on your post, 2.x is the only version ...
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The easiest method (if you don't change passwords much, which if you use Keepass you probably do) is to duplicate the database using the 2.x version.
There isn't too much of another way. If you actually look at what's going on with the encryption, you'll see that if it encrypts the whole thing with one key, it can't decrypt it with another because that's ...
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Export your LastPass passwords to a CSV file. Click on LastPass browser icon, go to Tools > Export to > LastPass CSV file.
Next, in KeePass go to File > Import > Generic CSV file. This should import the passwords.
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If you're looking to use the Keepass 1.x version, you should just use KeepassX instead.
It's as easy as adding the KeepassX repository to your sources (via System->Administration->Software Sources : Third Party Software->Add), and then installing the package.
sudo apt-get install keepassx
Note that if you're using Keepass 2.x versions on Windows that ...
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Use both. Keep your key file in your flash drive and bring it allways with you. But not somwhere on desktop (it is the same as writing password on sticky notes). I'm using this way to my encrypted HDD partition (with truecrypt). So if anybody still somehow get your password, they need keyfile too.
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