{"id":14884,"date":"2011-08-27T16:28:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2011-08-27T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:28:46","slug":"keepass-a-foss-password-manager-with-great-multiplatform-pc-and-mobile-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/14884\/","title":{"rendered":"KeePass, a FOSS Password Manager With Great Multiplatform (PC and Mobile) Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The focus of this site is on mobile web apps so I rarely cover native apps. However I prefer using a native app for password management. \u00a0I want my passwords available\u00a0instantly and everywhere regardless of whether I have a wireless signal or not. \u00a0I also need a password management solution that works on all my devices using the same encrpted password database. \u00a0I use Windows and Linux PCs as well as Android andSymbian smartphones and basic feature phones with Java ME support.<\/p>\n

There are some excellent comercial password mananagement utilities that support multiple platforms. But none that I know of support all the platforms I use. \u00a0Cost is also an issue when you use as many devices as I do including review phones that I have just for only a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

My solution for password management and one I\u00a0recommend\u00a0highly is \u00a0KeePass Password Safe<\/a>.\u00a0It’s free open source software (FOSS) for\u00a0securely\u00a0storing\u00a0passwords, PINS, social security numbers and any other data you want to keep hidden from prying eyes. Originally a Windows PC only app, KeePass has been ported to many platforms including; Mac OS X, Linux, iPhone, iPad,Android, BlackBerry, Java ME, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7. There’s a list of all ports with links on the KeePass site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"KeePassJ2ME<\/a><\/p>\n

I use \u00a0KeePassX<\/a>\u00a0on my Linux laptop. \u00a0The copy on the laptop is my master password store and is where I edit and modify passwords. \u00a0I frequently copy the KeyPass database (using bluetooth and my LAN) to my other PCs and phones that are\u00a0running\u00a0a variety of KeePass versions.\u00a0KeePass Classic Edition<\/a>\u00a0on Windows XP, KeePass Droid<\/a>\u00a0on Android, first image, \u00a0and KeyPassJ2ME<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Symbian and dumbphones, second image.<\/p>\n

The KeyPass apps I use work well together. KeyPassJ2ME is noteworthy for its support for basic phones that don’t allow Java apps to access the filesystem.\u00a0A companion KeePass Packer<\/a> desktop app lets you build a special version of KeePassJ2ME with a read-only copy of the password database encapsulated in the app itself.<\/p>\n

Several of the mobile implementations of KeyPass have mobile friendly download sites (listed below) which I’ve added to the WapReview Mobile Directory<\/a>‘s mobile downloads section.<\/p>\n

KeyPass Mobile (Java ME)\u00a0m.keepassmobile.com<\/a>
\nKeyPassJ2ME\u00a0keepassj2me.sourceforge.net\/kp\/<\/a>
\nKeyPass for BlackBerry: f5bbutils.fairview5.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The focus of this site is on mobile web apps so I rarely cover native apps. However I prefer using a native app for password management. \u00a0I want my passwords available\u00a0instantly and everywhere regardless of whether I have a wireless signal or not. \u00a0I also need a password management solution that works on all my devices using the same encrpted password database. \u00a0I use Windows and Linux PCs as well as Android andSymbian smartphones and basic feature phones with Java … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1436,204,254,1239,279,1256,1257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14900,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions\/14900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}