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Password Safe is a free and open-sourcepassword manager program originally written for Microsoft Windows but supporting wide area of operating systems with compatible clients available for Linux, FreeBSD, Android, IOS, BlackBerry and other operating systems as well.

The Linux version is available for Ubuntu (including the Kubuntu and Xubuntu derivatives) and Debian. A Java-based version is also available on SourceForge. On its page, users can find links to unofficial releases running under Android, BlackBerry, and other mobile operating systems.

History[edit]

The program was initiated by Bruce Schneier at Counterpane Systems,^[3] and is now hosted on SourceForge (Windows^[4]) and GitHub (Linux^[5]) and developed by a group of volunteers.^[6]

Design[edit]

After filling in the master password the user has access to all account data entered and saved previously. The data can be organized by categories, searched, and sorted based on references which are easy for the user to remember.^[7]

There are various key combinations and mouse clicks to copy parts of the stored data (password, email, username etc.), or use the autofill feature (for filling forms).The program can be set to minimize automatically after a period of idle time and clears the clipboard. It is possible to compare and synchronize (merge) two different password databases. The program can be set up to generate automatic backups.

Password Safe does not support database sharing, but the single-file database can be shared by any external sharing method (for example Syncthing, Dropbox etc.). Database is not stored online.

Features[edit]

Note: All uncited information in this section is sourced from the official Help file included with the application

Password management[edit]

Stored passwords can be sectioned into groups and subgroups in a tree structure.

Changes to entries can be tracked, including a history of previous passwords, the creation time, modification time, last access time, and expiration time of each password stored. Text notes can be entered with the password details.

Import and export[edit]

The password list can be exported to various file formats including TXT, XML and previous versions of Password Safe. Password Safe also supports importing these files

Password Safe supports importing TXT and CSV files which were exported from KeePass version 1.x (V1). KeePass version 2.x (V2) allows databases to be exported as a KeePass V1 database, which in turn can be imported to Password Safe.^{[needs update]}

Password Safe cannot directly import a XML file exported by KeePass V1 or V2, as the fields are too different. However, the Help file provides instructions for processing an exported XML file with one of multiple XSLT files (included with Password Safe) which will produce a Password Safe compatible XML file that can then be imported.^{[needs update]}

File encryption[edit]

Password Safe can encrypt any file using a key derived from a passphrase provided by the user through the command-line interface.

Password generator[edit]

The software features a built-in password generator that generates random passwords. The user may also designate parameters for password generation (length, character set, etc.), creating a 'Named Password Policy' by which different passwords can be created.

Cryptography[edit]

The original Password Safe was built on Bruce Schneier's Blowfish encryption algorithm. Rony Shapiro implemented Twofish encryption along with other improvements to the 3.xx series of Password Safe.^[8] The keys are derived using an equivalent of PBKDF2 with SHA-256 and a configurable number of iterations, currently set at 2048.^[9][10]

In a paper analysing various database formats of password storage programs for security vulnerabilities the researchers have found that the format used by Password Safe (version 3 format) was the most resistant to various cryptographic attacks.^[11]

Reception[edit]

Reviewers have highlighted the program's simplicity as its best feature.^[12]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^http://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/_members/
2. ^https://pwsafe.org/news.shtml
3. ^'Password Safe Product Review'. NMRC. Retrieved 2010-04-29.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^'PasswordSafe'. Sourceforge. Retrieved 2021-03-31.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
5. ^'PasswordSafe'. GitHub. Retrieved 2021-03-31.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'Password Safe | Encryption Download'. PCWorld. Archived from the original on 2010-10-27. Retrieved 2010-04-29.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
7. ^'Password Safe Review: Make Password Retrieval Easier'. Brighthub.com. 2009-10-31. Retrieved 2010-04-29.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^'WineHQ – Password Safe'. WineHQ.org. Retrieved 2013-02-07.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
9. ^Shapiro, Rony (2013-02-05). 'Master Key Generation from Master Password'. Retrieved November 29, 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
10. ^Shapiro, Rony (2013-01-08). 'PasswordSafe database format description version 3.29'.
11. ^Gasti, Paolo; Rasmussen, Kasper B. (2012). 'On The Security of Password Manager Database Formats'(PDF). ESORICS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 7459: 770–787. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33167-1_44.
12. ^'Password Safe review'. Software-Today.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-08-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Password Safe at FileHare.com
• Password Safe at Schneier.com
• pwSafe Password Safe clone for OS X and iOS
• Password Safe at Softonline.net
• PasswdSafe on Google Play

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