Looking for good free password manager

Can anyone recommend a good free password manager that can be run off a USB thumb drive and also can't be easily keylogged by keyloggers and keylogging trojans? Thanks a lot for any good recommendations.

 

Keepass would have to be my suggestion.
http://keepass.info/

 

If you are willing to store all your passwords, you may use Keepass.

If you're willing to auto-fill login and passwords forms on boards like Wilders Security once you are surfing on web, you can't rely on Keepass.

Unless I don't know the correct way to deal with him, he is incapable of doing that. So, he is worthless to me. I am using Firefox.

I keep asking myself why these browsers can't store all your passwords the same way Keepass can do. Instead, they choose to reveal all our passwords and form informations to everyone who may use our PC without our authorization.

Firefox is even worse than IE, when it comes to passwords.

Unless my life becomes very boring (having to spend one minute instead of seconds to log everywhere), I will keep saving my passwords on Firefox.

 

Thanks Tony. I have heard of KeePass, but I thought a while back I read someone said the program wasn't secure due to the plug-ins or something along those lines, so I wasn't using it. But now after looking into the program again I see that only matters if you run the install version and actually use the optional plug-ins, which I don't plan on doing either.

Here's what it says right on the KeePass website in the plug-ins section:

Warning
The plugins offered on this page are developed by different, independent authors. The KeePass team cannot check all plugins for bugs and/or malicious code and/or spyware before they are distributed here. Therefore, plugins need to be seen as possible security risk/hole and it's up to you if you trust the plugin developers or not.

http://keepass.info/plugins.html

Kinda scary.

 

Password Gorilla

/C.

 

Now that looks interesting Cerxes. Thanks for the recommendation. Me like open source.

 

Me too

 

I only use Password Depot and if you don't store more then 20 passwords, you can use it for free.
It will also run on USB flash drives.

 

Looks very interesting. Questions about Password Gorilla-
Program says a username/password is copied to the clipboard. I am assuming it is then pasted to the appropriate log in area?

Is the clipboard later automatically erased after the username/password has been copied to it?

thanks

 

When you double click a login name, the password is copied to the clipboard. After 10 seconds (your choice) the clipboard will be automatically cleared.

/C.

 

Blue Ring That just means that it is not checked by Keepass, the responsibility falls on the 3rd party plugin maker for defects and flaws (you just email the maker ie where you downloaded it should have the info) as for spyware you can scan for viruses and spyware yourself you should scan all downloads anyway.

 

I like KeePass because it will work on a USB flash drive (portable version) and there's a PocketPC port as well.

 

Eldar,

Thanks for the recommendation. Maybe it will help someone else but I have way more than 20 passwords.


Carver,

Thanks. I'm aware of what your saying. I just don't trust the plug-ins for KeePass. AV scans or not, they could still have a flaw/bug that could lead to compromise. Maybe even purposefully put there. But I still like KeePass and thinks it's a great free password manager.


I think I would take KeePass portable version over Gorilla though because it sounds like KeePass does have at least some protection against clipboard loggers and that's more what I was looking for.

I might just end up using a virtual keyboard to input passwords and avoid password managers that use the clipboard all together, because it could be a weak link in the chain, so to speak.

 

The Password Safe project is very active and supports U3. Still on my evaluation list.

 

Keepass can fill in usernames and passwords for you and can even fill in other sections of forms if you configure it correctly. Look in Keepass' Help file under Autotype.