Password database program?

[SportSC4]

I keep all my username, passwords, and websites in a ms word file. not really great protection. I was wondering if their were any *files* that can act to store passwords?

Or maybe someone can give me insight on trying to make a file that can do this. The most important thing is that it isn't a program, that way it can be used in any OS and be stored on a USB keychain drive. I think that an html file would work best since it could have tables and such for organization.

So it would be an html file that has columns for website, username, password, and a button for deletion. the very bottom would have entry fields for a new row. The file would ask for password/username when opened. Maybe some type of PGP encryption in case the usb keychain drive is stolen/lost.

Ideas?

 

[KLin]

html, xml, php, txt, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. would all work.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: SportSC4
I keep all my username, passwords, and websites in a ms word file. not really great protection. I was wondering if their were any *files* that can act to store passwords?

Or maybe someone can give me insight on trying to make a file that can do this. The most important thing is that it isn't a program, that way it can be used in any OS and be stored on a USB keychain drive. I think that an html file would work best since it could have tables and such for organization.

So it would be an html file that has columns for website, username, password, and a button for deletion. the very bottom would have entry fields for a new row. The file would ask for password/username when opened. Maybe some type of PGP encryption in case the usb keychain drive is stolen/lost.

Ideas?

Sounds interesting. I'd like to see a sample of this if at all possible. A sample could be edited to anyone's personal use, I figure. What I've been doing isn't phenomenal, but it works pretty OK. I have a Foxpro table that I make entries in for Internet related stuff, including site registrations. When I register at a site I record my username and password in a record in this table. The table is searchable and I never have trouble finding what I want. If I've never registered at a site, I'm not going to get a hit when searching this table. I've heard of and even dinked a bit with password storage programs but never used one other than my own system. Windows offers to store passwords, and since my machine is reasonably secure I go with that, too.

 

[3LEMENT0]

this is an open source program that would fit your usb keychain, I use this for my personal passcodes and work codes too, no need to install on the machine: http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

And this is for files that you want secure but has to be installed: http://www.cypherix.co.uk/downloads.htm

Otherwise you can just encrypt a word document put it in your usbkey chain good luck

 

[SportSC4]

thanks all.

i checked out that program, the only reason i want to stay away from programs is i sometimes find myself on macs or the rarely every linux machine. Or even in the rare cases of a windows machine without office.

I went ahead and did a mockup of the layout, i'm sure it can still be improved. any reccomendations would be appreciated. I know enough about sql to edit it thoroughly but not much about starting it from scratch. i'm going to try and make this a workable demo by tommorow, but no promises unfortunately, i don't know how to encrypt it... but one step at a time, right?

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